“My own funeral, I'd like to be laid out in a coffin in my own house. I would like my coffin to be put in the double parlor, and I would like all the flowers to be white.”

“Would that death were like this. Would that one would sleep and sleep and sleep forever.”

“I enjoy the Web site a lot and I like being able to talk to my readers. I've always had a very close relationship with them.”

“The atheism and nihilism of my earlier years now seems shallow, and even a bit cocky.”

“Do you know what I think about crying? I think some people have to learn to do it. But once you learn, once you know how to really cry, there's nothing quite like it. I feel sorry for those...”