“Immortality is the condition of a dead man who doesn’t believe he is dead.”
“It is brutal. Only I never could see the sense in having folks look at your tombstone and say, 'He was a man who didn't believe in violence, He's a good man... and dead.”
“All monsters are queers. Who is able to bring the dead back to life? God and the Devil. The Devil makes dead men into monsters: immortal, immoral—and queer.”
“He knew that a middle-aged man can be so desperate for wisdom he may try to make some up, and how deadly that can be to a youngster who believes him.”
“The difference between the one who remembers Allah and the one who doesn’t is like the living and the dead.”
“To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know he is dead.”