To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death.

Art has two constant, two unending concerns: It always meditates on death and thus always creates life. All great, genuine art resembles and continues the Revelation of St John.

I mean, death is a serious thing, certainly not to be sneezed at.

Long hair is an unpardonable offence which should be punishable by death.

Men should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death.