Maybe death is the great equalizer, the one big thing that can finally make strangers shed a tear for one another

All younger people should know something. If you’re always battling against getting older, you’re always going to be unhappy, because it will happen anyhow.

Maybe death is the great equalizer, the one big thing that can finally make strangers shed a tear for one another

And, in addition to all the miseries, the young are not wise. They have very little understanding about life. Who wants to live every day when you don't know what's going on? When people are manipulating you, telling you to buy this perfume and you'll be beautiful, or this pair of jeans and you'll be sexy-and you believe them! It's such nonsense.

When you look at it that way, you can see how absurd it is that we individualize ourselves with our fences and hoarded possessions.

We're involved in trillions of little acts just to keep going.

It’s natural to die. The fact that we make such a big hullabaloo over it is all because we don’t see ourselves as part of nature. We think because we’re human we’re something above nature.