Above all, he wanted to stop being a child without using the cheap disguise of becoming a parent. - Edward St Aubyn

Death was kind of a boisterous egomaniac that needed no encouragement.

But do you know what struck me, apart from Nancy’s vibrant self-pity, which she had the nerve to pretend was grief?

The idea that an afterlife had been invented to reassure people who couldn’t face the finality of death was no more plausible than the idea that the finality of death had been invented to reassure people who couldn’t face the nightmare of endless experience.