He imagined that in his estate of eternal night he might somehow have already halved the distance to death. That the transition for him could not be so great for the world was already at some certain distance and if it were not death's terrain he encroached upon in his darkness then whose?

“When you’re a kid you have these notions about how things are goin to be, Billy…”

“Es un país estupendo, ¿verdad?Sí que lo es. Duérmete.¿Compañero?Dime.Así es com…”

“Look around you, he said. There is no prophet in the earth's long chronicle who…”

“¿Qué harías si yo muriera? / Si tú murieras yo también querría morirme / ¿Para …”