“Death was driving an emerald-green Lexus.”

“In the wind, the trees, like agitated lions preparing to roar, shook their great green manes.”

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

“Live you can evade; death you cannot.”

“In Monterey, at the small airport rental agency, he hired a vomit-green Ford Tempo. It was an offense to his refined sense of color. The Tempo's tempo was satisfyingly allegro on flat roads but a bit adagio on the hills.”

“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.”