“Death steals everything except our stories.”

“One can survive everything nowadays except death.”

“Death is the sanction of everything the story-teller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death.”

“You will continue to read stories of crookedness and corruption - of policemen who lie and steal, doctors who reap where they do not sew, politicians on the take. Don't be misled. They are news because they are the exceptions.”

“We can say nothing but what hath been said. Our poets steal from Homer… Our story-dressers do as much; he that comes last is commonly best.”

“When death takes your mother, it steals that word forever.”

“A true heiress is never mean to anyone - except a girl who steals your boyfriend”

“Death is real. Death changes things. Everything else is filler, merely a message from our sponsor.”

“Because everything up to now is a story and everything after now is a story.”

“Everything's a story - You are a story -I am a story.”