There's nothing to mourn about death any more than there is to mourn about the growing of a flower. What is terrible is not death but the lives people live or don't live up until their death.

for a man of 55 who didn't get laid until he was 23 and not very often until he was 50 I think that I should stay listed via Pacific Telephone until I get as much as the average man has had

An early taste of death is not necessarily a bad thing.

and getting dressed we talk about what else there might be to do, but being together solves most of it, in fact, solves all of it

but isn't there always one good thing to look back on? think of how many cups of coffee we drank together.

When you drank the world was still out there, but for the moment it didn’t have you by the throat.

Find what you love and let it kill you.