"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."
"So,"he asked. "How's death?""Hard,"she said. "It just keeps going."
"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."
"That is the eternal folly of man. To be chasing after the sweet flesh, without realizing that it is simply a pretty cover for the bones."
"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."
"Call no man happy, said Shadow, until he is dead"