Anything with the power to make you laugh over thirty years later isn’t a waste of time. I think something like that is very close to immortality.

What I'd show you is much more bizarre than anything we have looked at so far, and I warn you in advance that the first impulse will be to laugh. That's all right. Laugh if you must. Just don't take your eye off what you see, for even in your imagination, here is a creature who can do you damage.

Each life makes its own immitation of immortality.

You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.

I was at a dinner party many years ago,sitting along from Tom Stoppard, who in those days smoked not just between courses,but between mouthfuls. An American woman watched in disbelief.

"And you so intelligent!"
"Excuse me?" said tom
"Knowing those things are going to kill you" she said "and still you do it."
"How differently I might behave" Tom said, "if immortality were an option

I love crime, I love mysteries, and I love ghosts.