“To dust is only to forestall burial ”
“Death is a mystery, and burial is a secret.”
“…she looked like Vivien, the Lady of the Lake, only she was fat and her lake was dust, sand and dust, bones and dust and sand.”
“If I did not simply live from one moment to another, it would be impossible for me to be patient, but I only look at the present, I forget the past, and I take good care not to forestall the future.”
“Man has the lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end up destroying the earth.”
“Elaborate burial customs are a sure sign of decadence.”