Mortality shapes our choices. - John Banville

"Mortality shapes our choices."

John Banville Death

Novelist Irish Born 1945 (age 81)

More from John Banville

"The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there."

"Memory is a form of forgetting."

"We are all wanderers on this earth."

"Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth."

"Death doesn't scare me anymore."

"Death and I are old friends."

"Welcome to my world."

"Death is just the beginning."