“Death steals everything except our stories.”
“One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.”
“Every story is a story about death. But perhaps, if we are lucky, our story about death is also a story about love.”
“I was realizing, for the first time, that everything goes on, turns gray, is ruined in the living. That there is no end to our story until death comes and the body decays...”
“You will continue to read stories of crookedness and corruption - of policemen who lie and steal, doctors who reap where they do not sew, politicians on the take. Don't be misled. They are news because they are the exceptions.”
“Death is the sanction of everything the story-teller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death.”