Death is real. Death changes things. Everything else is filler, merely a message from our sponsor.
Michael Marshall SmithYou can send people letters, and show them photos, but they can never come to visit where you live. Unless you love them. And then they can burn it down.
Michael Marshall SmithYou have to accept gifts occasionally, because there are some things you canโt give yourself
Michael Marshall SmithBeing truly aimless is like being dead. It may even be the same thing, or worse. It is the aimless who find the wrong roads, and drive down them, simply because they have nowhere else to go.
Michael Marshall SmithNobody likes to see a body, but it's better than seeing a ghost. Bodies just make you doubt the world and the people in it. Ghosts make you doubt everything, and to doubt it in a part of the mind that has no words to answer the question, where the comforting promises you make yourself are neither believed nor even really understood.
Michael Marshall Smith