1. Death is quite the undertaking. To die when one wants desperately to go on living is the most gruesome kind of labor any of us will ever know. It’s painful and bloody and empties our pockets of the fortune we think is ours. But we must do it.
  2. We are a people always seeking, always moving, always striving for more: it is the American way.
  3. I don’t know about you, but I am perpetually of the mind that God is disappointed in me.