死
"The fundamental fact about all of us is that we're alive for a while but will die before long. This fact is the real root cause of all our anger and pain."
"We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives."
Literature is the conversation between the living and the dead.
You build your life around the fact that you are going to die, and then you don’t die.
If you're alive, you've got to flap your arms and legs, you've got to jump around a lot, you've got to make a lot of noise, because life is the very opposite of death.
Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
If you have no enemies, you're dead.
I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape—the loneliness of it, the dead feeling of winter. Something waits beneath it, the whole story doesn’t show.
Most men die at twenty or thirty; thereafter they are only reflections of themselves.
The historian’s task is to bring the dead to life.