"Americans have an abiding belief in their ability to control reality by purely material means... airline insurance replaces the fear of death with the comforting prospect of cash"
"Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see"
"If I die a violent death, as some fear and a few are plotting, I know that the violence will be in the thought and the action of the assassins, not in my dying"
