“Dream headline from Orafouraville Times: Man Let Go By Employer, Falls To Death”

“Sometimes we walk away from our big dreams; but then, this time our big dreams don’t let us to go away!”

“For a moment they still lived and I experienced their deaths as a fresh loss with each waking, so that I was unsure whether I was a man waking from a dream of death or a dreamer entering a world of loss, a man dreaming of unhappiness or a man waking to grief.”

“Joseph Conrad once said that a man who is born falls into a dream like a man who falls into the sea”

“One went on and on, never dreaming of the sudden dreadful day when the coverings were going to be dropped and one would see it was death after all, that it had been death all the time, death pretending, death waiting”

“You always hear a headline like this, 'Man Killed By Shark', you never hear it from the other perspective, 'Man Swims in Shark Infested Waters, Forgets He's Shark Food'.”