Flann O'Brien
Flann O'Brien was an Irish novelist and playwright known for his innovative and humorous works, including 'At Swim-Two-Birds' and 'The Third Policeman'.
"Human existence being an hallucination containing in itself the secondary hallucinations of day and night (the latter an insanitary condition of the atmosphere due to accretions of black air) it ill becomes any man of sense to be concerned at the illusory approach of the supreme hallucination known as death."