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.

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

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.

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.....

Dear, sweet, beautiful girl,

Every successful person has had to overcome the fear of failure.

Man's greatest happiness comes from losing himself for the good of others.

Our gross domestic product, or GDP, is barely above 1 percent. And going down.

If your addiction lingers, ask yourself if you really want to release it, because in your heart you do not.

Jesus did not say that the whole world should go to church.Essentia lly He said that the church should go to the whole world.

If you have discovered a truth, tell it first to a parrot! Every new truth needs an insistent repetition!

You can park your snark at the gate, Omaha.

I love N.Y.C.! I cant think of any individual that hates New York.

Men are still men. The despot's wickedness Comes of ill teaching, and of power's excess,-- Comes of the purple he from childhood wears, Slaves would be tyrants if the chance were theirs.