If we openly declare what is wrong with us what is our deepest need then perhaps the death and despair will by degrees disappear.

'Hamlet' is one of the most dangerous things ever set down on paper. All the big unknowable questions like what it is to be a human being the difference between sanity and insanity the meaning of life and death what's real and not real. All these subjects can literally drive you mad.

For a culture that has such a problem with death we seem to deal with it in a quite bizarre way. We see people shot killed and blown up and we find it funny and sexy and all those things. But the reality of it is that every day people die and people are really sad and they grieve and they go through a really difficult process with it.

We see death constantly on film.

I might be deceiving myself but I do not think that I do have an inordinate fear of death.

Fear of death has never played a large part in my consciousness - perhaps unimaginative of me.

The approach of death certainly concentrates the mind.

We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.

I looked Death right in the face.

Death has always had a prominent place in my mind. There are times when I think somebody might kill me.