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.....

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.

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...

no one needs love from youmore than you need love from you.love yourself first, and you will always be in love.

Henry did not want to be fixed, was somehow convinced that the fix would be a lie, something that would lessen him.

The moment of assassination is the moment when power and the ignorance of power come together, with Death as validator.

Any perceived 'rejection' is simply a 're-direction'.

Hip-hop is more about attaining wealth. People respect success. They respect big. They don't even have to like your music. If you're big enough, people are drawn to you.

I wake up in the morning and my mind starts making sentences, and I have to get rid of them fast - talk them or write them down.

Royalty is either going to do very well with cloning, or it's going to disappear completely.

I have no mystic faith in the people. I have in the individual.

No one is so brave that he is not disturbed by something unexpected.

Much of my time is taken up by reading, researching and trying out ideas.