“Life and death have equal authority in nature. When laws contradict so fundamentally they cause mere confusion in the average soul ”

“Seemed she should learn to smile when she was unhappy, to stop laughing, to speak up, to never speak to strangers, to share guilt for the acts of strangers, that strangers made the laws of the land, that the laws of the land valued things over life, that life ended if a stranger decided it, to be where she could be found, to feel one thing and do another. How could she hang so many contradictions in one skull”

“What happens when the hitcher and the driver are equally murderous?”

“The law is where reality goes to die.”

“What’s that thing when someone gets a knock on the head and suddenly can’t remember anything about himself?’Death,’ said the barman, his face a mask of disapproval.”

“On July 13, 1994, Lint had a near-death experience, followed immediately by death.”

“A hundred percent of marriages end in divorce, disappearance or death.”