“Death came, Death went, but Commerce flowed Eternal.”

“And so we went to the Panamint, where Death had gone to gamble and had, as always, won.”

“He wondered why it was easier to believe in a malevolent spirit than in a benign one. Sometimes it seemed that the human heart, this side of Eden, feared eternal life more than death, light more than darkness, freedom more than surrender.”

“Death was driving an emerald-green Lexus.”

“Live you can evade; death you cannot.”

“I am sustained by the certainty that life has meaning...as does death.”

“The brain acknowledged the approach of death while the heart stubbornly insisted upon immortality.”