We have a limit a very discouraging humiliating limit: death.

To appear on the stage drunk to have them leave there and remember me making drunken mistakes that was death.

I am bound to add that the excess in too little has ever proved in me more dangerous than the excess in too much the last may cause indigestion but the first causes death.

As the fly bangs against the window attempting freedom while the door stands open so we bang against death ignoring heaven.

Death is the final wake-up call.

When sudden death takes a president opportunities for new beginnings flourish among the ambitious and the tensions among such people can be dramatic as they were when President Kennedy was killed.

Life can't defeat a writer who is in love with writing for life itself is a writer's lover until death.

Tears are sometimes an inappropriate response to death. When a life has been lived completely honestly completely successfully or just completely the correct response to death's perfect punctuation mark is a smile.

So for twelve miles I rode with Sherman and we became fast friends. He asked me all manner of questions on the way and I found that he knew my father well and remembered his tragic death in Salt Creek Valley.

My brother was a great favorite with everybody and his death cast a gloom upon the whole neighborhood.