Not that there's anything wrong with just lying around on your back. In it's way, rotting is interesting too, as we will see. It's just that there are other ways to spend your time as a cadaver.

Many people will find this book disrespectful. There is nothing amusing about being dead, they will say. Ah, but there is.

We are biology. We are reminded of this at the beginning and the end, at birth and at death. In between we do what we can to forget.

There wasn't an anhydrous lacrimal gland in the room...

It is difficult to put words to the smell of decomposing human. It is dense and cloying, sweet but not flower-sweet. Halfway between rotting fruit and rotting meat.

compressed into boxes, packed in sawdust, ... trussed up in sacks, roped up like hams...

cadavers' intestines hanging like a parade streamers off the sides of tables, skulls bobbing in boiling pots, organs strewn on the floor being eaten by dogs.....

Your single not because you are not good enough for one, it's that you're too good for the wrong one.

You used to scream so well when you were scared, back when I lived under your bed.

If "Frailty, thy name is woman", Frailty must be a man named as 'woman

Be attached to nothing. Be grateful for everything.

Civility is not a specific code of behavior as much as it is a call to unrelenting preemptive thought, and steady effort to care about influence on others.

I shall bere your noble fame, for ye spake a grete worde and fulfilled it worshipfully.

Nothing comes sailing by itself.

A fiancé is neither this nor that: he's left one shore, but not yet reached the other.

The talent of turning men into ridicule, and exposing to laughter those one converses with, is the qualification of little ungenerous tempers.

If an actor ever says they really enjoy the auditioning process, I truly believe that they're lying. It's an anxiety-filled waking nightmare. It's awful.