Dying makes everyone weaker, subject to painful insight, and not always insight into any kind of special truth - it's just the approaching end that makes people want to believe they are seeing something in the line of a great revelation.

“I waved to everybody. Some of themeven waved back. They knew me, had seen me go…”

“A man can take only so much. Even a phony man like me.”

“And if so, I could fill my time with the new entry on my rather exclusive socia…”

“A man who discovers his pants are on fire tends to have very little time to wor…”