The world is the house of the strong. I shall not know until the end what I have lost or won in this place, in this vast gambling den where I have spent more than sixty years, dicebox in hand, shaking the dice. – Denis Diderot
For man, maximum excitement is the confrontation of death and the skillful defiance of it by watching others fed to it as he survives transfixed with rapture. – Ernest Becker
Sometimes I think it would be easier to avoid old age, to die young, but then youd never complete your life, would you? Youd never wholly know you. – Marilyn Monroe
