“In death, as in sleep, I am all things.”

“...I am discovering that it is truly a mistake--it may even be a moral wrong, in fact--to judge. Truth is too complex, too contradictory, too mercurial, to be one-sided, though it is human nature to prefer the reassurance and ease of firm judgement. Judgement helps us to justify our less savory actions.”

“He understood the mind's pride, filleting, pinning down life. Understood taking apart, reassembling and labeling. To Understand was to control, to keep the terror of human insignificance at bay. It was routine to self-importance, this ability to kill and to rebuild, to catalog and stop any motion too directly pointing out human limitation and death.”

“Fear is the little dark room where negatives are developed.”

“You don't stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing.”

“Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.”

“She said that her father's death had been the hardest thing in her life. "We are all children until our fathers die.”