“Night has patterns that can be readless by the living than by the dead.”
“Psychoanalysis has taught that the dead – a dead parent, for example – can be more alive for us, more powerful, more scary, than the living. It is the question of ghosts.”
“any live man is better than any dead man but no live or dead man is very much better than any other live or dead man”
“The dead can be even more frustrating to deal with than are many of the living, which is astonishing when you consider it's the living who run the Department of Motor Vehicles.”
“The dead are way more organized than the living.”
“Better a live dog than a dead lion.”