"Persons famous in the arts partake of the immortality of princes, and are upon a footing with them"

"Immortality - a fate worse than death"

"Martyrdom: The only way a man can become famous without ability"

"Poets have said that the reason to have children is to give yourself immortality. Immortality? Now that I have five children, my only hope is that they are all out of the house before I die"

"Whereas you have someone like Houdini, who works really, really hard to get really, really famous, and then has actual intellectual ideas that he puts into the culture that stay there"

"How many famous and high-spirited heroes have lived a day too long?"

"The insatiable thirst for everything which lies beyond, and which life reveals, is the most living proof of our immortality"

"If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error"

"I think in the end, when you're famous, people like to narrow you down to a few personality traits. I think I've just become this ambitious, say-whatever's-on-her-mind, intimidating person. And that's part of my personality, but it's certainly not anywhere near the whole thing"

"I never wanted to do biography just to tell the life of a famous man. I always wanted to use the life of a man to examine political power, because democracy shapes our lives"

"Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality"