I have no fear of death. More important, I don't fear life.

O Death, rock me asleep, bring me to quiet rest, let pass my weary guiltless ghost out of my careful breast.

Death comes in a flash, and that's the truth of it, the person's gone in less than 24 frames of film.

At the moment of death I hope to be surprised.

I was court-martial in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.