“Men! Dead or alive, they could be exactly the same.”
“She understands all at once, with a small shock, exactly what it is she always needed to tell Harland: being there in person is not the same as watching. You might see things better on television, but you'll never know if you were alive or dead while you watched.”
“The Church is a house with a hundred gates: and no two men enter at exactly the same angle”
“If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive. ”
“A detective story generally describes six living men discussing how it is that a man is dead. A modern philosophic story generally describes six dead men discussing how any man can possibly be alive.”
“I'm alive but I have no life. I'm alive but also dead. I'm dead and alive.”