He had never expected death to be this quiet, this secretive, this easy.

“Yes.’ He drank it all down and then casually threw the glass at the fireplace. …”

“Put out the light and then put out the light.”

“I wanted shelves for my books, and a finer chair for this desk. Of course there…”

“God did not live in this church; these statues gave an image to nothingness. I …”