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

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.

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.

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.....

I passed out from stress? That’s it?”“I believe the princess term is fainted, ” said Thorne.

Some circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you find a trout in the milk.

If genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration, then as a culture we tend to lionize the one percent.

The most valuable of all human possessions, next to a superior and disdainful air, is the reputation of being well-to-do.

You will never work through writer's block if you walk away from your typewriter. That will only make it easier to walk away the next time.

Nowadays it seems more and more like the 'business' in 'show business' is underlined, and there are campaigns, and it's all part of getting people in to see the movies.

Contempt is frequently regulated by fashion.

I could remember the house on Lexington Street, where the mortgage hung over our heads almost as tangibly as the roof, and we still managed to enjoy life.

You're a hundred percent correct about our show being tops in quality.

Tis I that call, remember Milo's end, Wedged in that timber which he strove to rend.