“Handsome enough’ is this Grim Reaper, Who can snuff all these ‘brief candles,’ every fluttering soul sucking the air, from this hall.”

“Heaven would be Hell in no time if every cruel, selfish, vicious soul went to Heaven.”

“An evil for these times destined to move through the world in handsome human guise.”

“What is written beneath this heavy handsome book cover will count, so sayeth this cover…”

“I'm Gentleman Death in silk and lace, come to put out the candles. The canker in the heart of the rose.”

“Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly. Only if you do that can you hope to make the reader feel every particle of what you, the writer, have known and feel compelled to share."---Forward to Kafka's Short stories”

“It was the night that the power went out in Berkeley that he'd finished Joyce's Finnegan's Wake by the light of a candle. Sometimes you need to be forced to study what's right in front of you.”