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As Socrates so philosophically put it, since we don't know what death is, it is illogical to fear it.

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It is easily and often overlooked that when Thomas Jefferson asserted that life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness were inalienable human rights, h...more

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For me, human rights simply endorse a view of life and a set of moral values that are perfectly clear to an eight-year-old child. A child knows what i...more

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No one gets up after death-there is no applause-there is only silence and some second-hand clothes, and that's death.

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Comparing what we're looking for misses the point. It's wanting to know that makes us matter. Otherwise we're going out the way we came in. That's why...more

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I am not my body. My body is nothing without me.

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A man breaking his journey between one place and another at a third place of no name, character, population or significance, sees a unicorn cross his ...more

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We do on stage things that are supposed to happen off. Which is a kind of integrity, if you look on every exit as being an entrance somewhere else.

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Rosencrantz: We might as well be dead. Do you think death could possibly be a boat?Guildenstern: No, no, no... Death is...not. Death isn't. You take m...more

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GUIL (quietly): Where we went wrong was getting on a boat. We can move, of course, change direction, rattle about, but our movement is contained withi...more

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Be happy -- if you're not even happy, what's so good about surviving?

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Because children grow up, we think a child's purpose is to grow up. But a child's purpose is to be a child. Nature doesn't disdain what lives only for...more

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Better a fallen rocket than never a burst of light. Dante reserved a place in his Inferno for those who wilfully live in sadness - sullen in the sweet...more

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I don't think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you might nudge the world a littl...more