“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.”

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

“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.”

“The clerk tripped on the carpet, hit a window and went through, carrying with him a vase which had been on the sill. His skull broke like the vase and the vase broke like his skull, and both burst forth water mainly, and from the vase some flowers. If I could choose a death I’d make it something like that, except I’d add a good woman and some lard.”

“Scientists used to do an experiment whereby a dog’s repeated reward for performing a task was unaccountably replaced by punishment. The dog, knowing it would be penalized for doing well or doing badly, would become melancholic and inactive. This and other unforeseeable results were funded by taxing up to sixty percent of people’s earnings. People became strangely melancholic and inactive”

“He had long been curious at leaders intermittent calls for a return to past values and had tested the notion by trying to build a house from the sky downwards”