"I believe that life is a game, that life is a cruel joke, and that life is what happens when you're alive and that you might as well lie back and enjoy it."
"What I say is, a town isn’t a town without a bookstore. It may call itself a town, but unless it’s got a bookstore, it knows it’s not foolin’ a soul."
"Call no man happy, said Shadow, until he is dead"
"It doesn't matter that you didn't believe in us,"said Mr. Ibis. "We believed in you."
"So,"he asked. "How's death?""Hard,"she said. "It just keeps going."
"I don't know much more than I did when I was alive. Most of the stuff I know now that I didn't know then I can't put into words."