I wouldn't mind dying in a plane crash. It'd be a good way to go. I don't want to die in my sleep, or of old age, or OD... I want to feel what it's like. I want to taste it, hear it, smell it. Death is only going to happen to you once; I don't want to miss it.

I think the highest and lowest points are the important ones. Anything else is just... in between. I want the freedom to try everything.

I think there's a whole region of images and feelings inside us that rarely are given outlet in daily life. And when they do come out, they can take perverse f…

I think I was just fed up with the image that had been created around me, which I sometimes consciously, most of the time unconsciously cooperated with. It jus…

Fay: What will you do when you're old? Hal: I shall die. Fay: I see you're determined to run the gamut of all experience.

At no point during his ordeal did Nero think of himself as 72% alive and 28% dead.

One of the first signs of the beginnings of understanding is the wish to die. This life appears unbearable, another unattainable. One is no longer ashamed of w…