Salman Rushdie indeed any writer who abuses the prophet or indeed any prophet under Islamic law the sentence for that is actually death.

Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic.

Death obsesses me yes it does. I can't really understand why it doesn't obsess everyone - I think it does really I'm just a little more out about it.

Communism possesses a language which every people can understand - its elements are hunger envy and death.

Crucial to understanding federalism in modern day America is the concept of mobility or 'the ability to vote with your feet.' If you don't support the death penalty and citizens packing a pistol - don't come to Texas. If you don't like medicinal marijuana and gay marriage don't move to California.

For those who seek to understand it death is a highly creative force. The highest spiritual values of life can originate from the thought and study of death.

All violence consists in some people forcing others under threat of suffering or death to do what they do not want to do.

I don't fear death because I don't fear anything I don't understand. When I start to think about it I order a massage and it goes away.

The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy indifference and undernourishment.

As long as your body is healthy and under control and death is distant try to save your soul when death is immanent what can you do?