Status Updates From Anansi Boys: A Novel

"Being dead is probably just like everything else in life: you pick some of it up as you go along, and you just make up the rest."

"He was having second thoughts about all this, something Spider found fairly disconcerting. Normally he didn't even have first thoughts about things."

"It begins, as most things begin, with a song. In the beginning, after all, were the words, and they came with a tune. That was how the world was made, how the void was divided, how the lands and the stars and the dreams and the little gods and the animals, how all of them came into the world.
They were sung."