Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.
I suppose there must be some way in which I'm compelled to show some side of myself - or of people - that's paranoid and fraught and beleaguered and downtrodden, just as Tom Cruise wants to show that he's terrifyingly upbeat and terrifyingly heroic all the time.
Act as if the maxim of your action were to become through your will a be general natural law.