I prefer a positive to a negative. 
In this game that we’re playing, we can’t win.
Some kinds of failure are better than other kinds, that’s all.
We are the dead.
We're not dead yet.

Which would you sooner sleep with, me or a skeleton? 
Don’t you enjoy being alive?
Don’t you like feeling:

This is me, this is my hand,
this is my leg, I’m real, I’m solid, I’m alive!
Don’t you like this?’