"I’ve always had bronchitis. I’ve been administered the Sacrament of Death three times for it." ― Mercedes McCambridge Topic(s): Death More From Mercedes McCambridge "I can choose to accelerate my disease to an alcoholic death or incurable insanity, or I can choose to live within my thoroughly human condition." "I’d never been in play long enough for the flowers to die in the dressing room." "It is a remarkably beautiful piece of home furnishing, the Oscar. I used to keep it up in front of a mirror so that it looked like two." More In Death "Sometimes I can tackle an issue -homelessness, tobacco litigation, insurance fraud, the death penalty – and wrap a good story around it. These are the best books, the ones with a story and a message."― John Grisham "A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor."― Aldous Huxley "Those who welcome death have only tried it from the ears up."― Wilson Mizner