I was first to break the news about the death of Lady Diana. The CNN team couldn't get into makeup fast enough.

To know that one has never really tried - that is the only death.

Believe me, if a man doesn't know death, he doesn't know life.

What is ironic is that Allen Ginsberg's importance was in its twilight for so many years that it took his death to bring it to the front page. He electrified an entire world!

Men do not accept their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and worship those whom they have tortured to death.

In fiction, too, after the death of Cooper the main tendency for nearly a generation was away from the conquest of new borders to the closer cultivation, east of the Mississippi, of ground already marked.

Smoking is the now the principal avoidable cause of premature death in Britain. It hits the worst off people hardest of all. Smoking is one of the principal causes of the health gap which leads to poorer people being ill more often and dying sooner.

Saddam's fate should be in the hands of his country men. They were the major victims of his brutal reign and should decide his life, death, or permanent imprisonment. Personally, I would lock him away forever.

I was blessed with a birth and a death, and I guess I just want some say in between.

People meet in bars after work all over the world and talk about the great problems of life and death and the world and politics and they don't take themselves seriously. They can do nothing else except chat about these things in bars after work.

Grumbling is the death of love.

People praise virtue, but they hate it, they run away from it. It freezes you to death, and in this world you've got to keep your feet warm.

Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.

Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath.

If I ever went, I'd want to go peacefully in my sleep. I wouldn't want to plan my own death.