To appear on the stage drunk, to have them leave there and remember me making drunken mistakes, that was death. – Sammy Davis, Jr.

The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual – when it begins to ignore the passions, the emotions – it becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance. – Isaac Bashevis Singer

If we dont know life, how can we know death? – Confucius