It's a very difficult thing losing a parent, but I think there's an added complication for me, because he was so well-loved and he had this very open charm that made people feel they had a personal relationship with him.
If Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at the age of 22, it would have changed the history of music and of aviation.
Death doesn't just take someone, it misses someone else, and in the small distance between being taken and being missed, lives are changed.
It's a hell of a thing, killing a man. You take away all he's got and all he's ever gonna have.
Those who in living fill the smallest space, In death have often left the greatest void.
Death is meaningless unless it happens to someone you know.
Death makes a prophet's voice louder.
Any woman's death diminishes me.
