"Ah, God, it's barbaric, however you look at it,' he told Ruth.'What, cremation?' she asked.'Death."

"The trouble with dying...is that you don't get to see how everything turns out. You won't know the ending."

"Something was wrong with a world where people came and went so easily."

"Odd how clear it suddenly became, once a person had died, that the body was the very least of him."