“Opportunity, adventure, sunsets, dusty death.”

“Every advance in knowledge and technique is matched by a new kind of death, a new strain. Death adapts, like a viral agent.”

“It is the form that allows a writer the greatest opportunity to explore human experience...For that reason, reading a novel is potentially a significant act. Because there are so many varieties of human experience, so many kinds of interaction between humans, and so many ways of creating patterns in the novel that can’t be created in a short story, a play, a poem or a movie. The novel, simply, offers more opportunities for a reader to understand the world better, including the world of artistic creation. That sounds pretty grand, but I think it’s true.”

“We're a silver gleaming death machine!”

“Some people are larger than life. Hitler is larger than death.”

“It was not Death that stood before me but only Vernon Dickey, my father-in-law.”

“We seem to believe it is possible to ward off death by following rules of good grooming.”