“Even back then, I guess, I suspected that sometimes the only available choice in life is to spit on death and run.”

“Death almost always rearranges life, sometimes for the worse, many times for the better,”

“Sometimes it's possible to see misfortune coming and prepare for it, I guess, but most of the time, when a person disappears, it's as unexpected and shocking as hail in the middle of June.”

“But you can't worry about what life's going to spit in your direction.”

“Sometimes I think I collect souls to make up for the ones I've lost over the course of my life.”

“Everything in the world has its two faces, however. Weeds sometimes blossom into artful flowers. Beauty walks hand in hand with ugliness, sickness with health, and life tiptoes around in the horned shadow of death. The trick is to recognize which is which and to recognize what you're dealing with at the time.”

“A gardin is where you can find a whole spectrum of life, birth and death”