“Death, he felt, was only a kind of warning rather than a desperate and permanent end.”

“[T]he category of 'consumer' is now a temporary behavior rather than a permanent identity.”

“and realized that death was not only a permanent probability, as he had always believed, but an immediate reality.”

“Holden had once dated a Buddhist who said that death was merely a different state of being, and people only feared the unknown that lay behind that transition. Death without warning was preferable, as it removed all fear.He felt he now had the counterargument.”

“And it would be a death of the worst kind; becoming the very thing that I hunted myself, or worse. It was far more terrifying than the end of life completely. I'd rather be gone from this world for all of eternity than become a slave to Hell.”

“Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.”