So if I design it and then go away it's still living somewhere and it still exists by itself without me.

A person should design the way he makes a living around how he wishes to make a life.

Designing is my hobby. If I didn't do what I do for a living - at some point when I don't do this for a living - I'll probably just do design work. I love finding really special pieces of furniture.

Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought - asleep. When we are weary of the living we may repair to the dead who have nothing of peevishness pride or design in their conversation.

The urge for good design is the same as the urge to go on living.

If you think aficionados of a living Constitution want to bring you flexibility think again. You think the death penalty is a good idea? Persuade your fellow citizens to adopt it. You want a right to abortion? Persuade your fellow citizens and enact it. That's flexibility.

You realize that however much you don't think about death - or think that's for other people - you're just an organism living from day to day. I'm just grateful I'm here.

Life itself is but the shadow of death and souls departed but the shadows of the living.

Living with the immediacy of death helps you sort out your priorities in life. It helps you to live a less trivial life.

Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.