"We must be born with an intuition of mortality. Before we know the words for it, before we know that there are words, out we come, bloodied and squalling with the knowledge that for all the compasses in the world, there's only one direction, and time is its only measure.<br><br>

A Hindu, a Buddhist and a lion-tamer chanced to meet, in a circus on the Indo-Chinese border."

"In youth, when I did love, did love, <br>
methought it was very sweet,<br>
to contract, O, the time, for, ah, my behove,<br>
O, methought, there was nothing meet.<br>
<br>
"But age, with his stealing steps,<br>
hath claw'd me in his clutch,<br>
and hath shipped me intil the land,<br>
as if I had never been such.<br>
<br>
"A pick-axe, and a spade, a spade,<br>
for and a shrouding sheet:<br>
O, a pit of clay for to be made<br>
for such a guest is meet."

"Well, I can do you blood and love without the rhetoric, and I can do you blood and rhetoric without the love, and I can do you all three concurrent or consecutive, but I can't do you love and rhetoric without the blood. Blood is compulsory -- they're all blood, you see."

"You that look pale and tremble at this chance,<br>
that are but mutes or audience to this act,<br>
had I but time--as this fell sergeant, death,<br>
is strict in his arrest--O, I could tell you--<br>
but let it be."<br>

"He is dead and gone, lady,<br>
he is dead and gone;<br>
at his head a green-grass turf;<br>
at his heels a stone."

"Now milkmaids and queens, we all have filet mignon dreams,<br>
but when the steak is gone, you will eat the beans.<br>
And when you're out of beans, you'll chew the shoes off their feet,<br>
but you eat."

"No place, indeed, should murder sanctuarize;<br>
revenge should have no bounds."

"Do you see yonder cloud that's almost in shape of a camel?"<br><br>

"By the mass, and 'tis like a camel, indeed."<br><br>

"Methinks it is like a weasel."<br><br>

"It is backed like a weasel."<br><br>

"Or like a whale?"<br><br>

"Very like a whale."

"so you shall hear<br>
of carnal, bloody, and unnatural acts,<br>
of accidental judgments, casual slaughters,<br>
of deaths put on by cunning and forced cause,<br>
and, in this upshot, purposes mistook<br>
fall'n on the inventors' reads: all this can I<br>
truly deliver.