“A dead man in Spain is more alive than a dead man anywhere in the world.”

“The live dead-man is dead as a producer and alive insofar as he consumes”

“any live man is better than any dead man but no live or dead man is very much better than any other live or dead man”

“This life is short, the vanities of the world are transient, but they alone live who live for others, the rest are more dead than alive.”

“i'm sure i'm worth a lot more dead than alive”

“Psychoanalysis has taught that the dead – a dead parent, for example – can be more alive for us, more powerful, more scary, than the living. It is the question of ghosts.”

“A man who can't uphold his beliefs is pathetic dead or alive - Hajime Saito”

“A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with, the wind. Even a head wind is better than none. No man ever worked his passage anywhere in a dead calm.”

“Objects exist and if one pays more attention to them than to people, it is precisely because they exist more than the people. Dead objects are still alive. Living people are often already dead.”

“Behind every man now alive stand 30 ghosts, for that is the ratio by which the dead outnumber the living.”