Only in death will I relinquish my belts.
Andrew Wood's death changed things for a few weeks. I probably got even heavier into drugs after that.
I was fantasising about my own death I started thinking what my funeral would be like and what music would be played I was at that level of insanity.
You know Americans are obsessed with life and death and rebirth that's the American Cycle. You know awakening tragic horrible death and then Phoenix rising from the ashes. That's the American story again and again.
I grew up in the suburbs and basically associate the suburbs with cultural death.
Quarreling over food and drink having neither scruples nor shame not knowing right from wrong not trying to avoid death or injury not fearful of greater strength or of greater numbers greedily aware only of food and drink - such is the bravery of the dog and boar.
I'm possibly a very morbid person but I think about death a lot.
It is not tolerable it is not possible that from so much death so much sacrifice and ruin so much heroism a greater and better humanity shall not emerge.
We were aware of the fact that death walks hand in hand with struggle.
Buddhas move freely through birth and death appearing and disappearing at will.
Why doesn't Apple stop for a year and make medical devices? When people talk about technology that's where I start to get a little hot under the collar because I know that it's the key to solving some of the world's biggest problems. Having a faster thinner telephone is not one of the world's biggest problems.