“Death was a friend, and sleep was Death's brother.”

“Some men ease themselves like setting hens into the nest of death.”

“Nobody has the right to remove any single experience from another. Life and death are promised. We have a right to pain.”

“It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure to the world.”

“The wedding was in Monterey, a sombre boding ceremony in a little Protestant chapel. The church had so often seen two ripe bodies die by the process of marriage that it seemed to celebrate a mystic double death with its ritual.”

“Do you think it's funny to be so serious when I'm not even out of high school?' she asked.'I don't see how it could be any other way,' said Lee. 'Laughter comes later, like wisdom teeth, and laughter at yourself comes last of all in a mad race with death, and sometimes it isn't in time.”

“An ocean without unnamed monsters would be like sleep without dreams.”