You never choose the way that you're raised, it's just the way that you were raised, but you do get to a certain age where you're in a position to question the expectations of you and the way that you've been formed by your surroundings.

Individuals approaching death often experience encounters with their dead relatives, who seem to welcome them to the next world. These deathbed visions are authentic and convincing they are often followed by a state of euphoria and seem to ease the transition.

Stanislav Grof

I think about death a lot, like I think we all do. I don't think of suicide as an option, but as fun. It's an interesting idea that you can control how you go. It's this thing that's looming, and you can control it.

Ryan Gosling

I fell in love with social work, and that was my undoing as a poet.

Carl Rakosi

Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless when facing them.

Rabindranath Tagore

Libraries are our friends.

Neil Gaiman

It's linkage I'm talking about, and harmonies and structures, And all the various things that lock our wrists to the past.

Charles Wright

Horror, for me, has to involve some sort of fantasy. Horror is something that is in your dreams or your nightmares.

Cassandra Peterson

He would give every penny he has (such is the malignity of the germ) to write one little book and become famous; yet all the gold in Peru will not buy him the treasure of a well-turned line.

Virginia Woolf

It's very much like opera singers. They do the same thing. The first thing in the morning and the last thing at night, the thing they think about is their voice and how to take care of it.

Johnny Mathis

I had very strong feelings, so the chance to make a film that deals in an imaginative way with stuff you care tremendously about is a real high. It's a really amazing thing to be able to do.

Jonathan Demme

Censorship is to art as lynching is to justice.

Henry Louis Gates

Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.

Steve Jobs