Death is the sanction of everything the story-teller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death.

Giving is good but taking is bad and brings death.

To say yes you have to sweat and roll up your sleeves and plunge both hands into life up to the elbows. It is easy to say no even if saying no means death.

I get scared to death when I see people who say they've found Jesus Christ and they're out there and I wonder who's teaching them? Who's mentoring them?

Pay mind to your own life your own health and wholeness. A bleeding heart is of no help to anyone if it bleeds to death.

I'm more afraid of marriage than death.

Constantly risking absurdity and death whenever he performs above the heads of his audience the poet like an acrobat climbs on rhyme to a high wire of his own making.

The disembodied spirit is immortal there is nothing of it that can grow old or die. But the embodied spirit sees death on the horizon as soon as its day dawns.

My mother was the sweetest lady who ever lived on this planet but if you tried to tell her that Jesus wasn't a Christian she would stomp you to death.

I was extended secret service protection during my presidential run in 1984 when I received the most death threats ever made toward a candidate.