He pinched the remaining chapters’ pages delicately between his fingers and sighed. He always hated reaching the end of a good book.

Take it from an old cadaver. Let go of the past.

Some necrophobes earn their own fates.

As any avid reader knew, a good read deserved a good seat.

To think that she had read the same elegiac prose he now beheld with such quiet awe made his heart sing.

Can’t call ‘em zombies anymore, ” sighed Manny. He seemed almost wistful. “Now we gotta be all politically correct. It’s like the Cold Wars never happened.

Even in death she was more beautiful to him than she ever was alive.

The sooner the rebirth, the prettier the corpse.

When time is not in your favor, be in favor of time

The end is never the end. It's always the the beginning of something.

A lawyer with his briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns.

Democratic institutions generally give men a lofty notion of their country and themselves.

I don't know what people have against Jimmy Carter. He's done nothing.

As a costume designer, it's important to give each person his or her own personalized look.

Owing to ignorance of the rope the rope appears to be a snake; owing to ignorance of the Self the transient state arises of the individualized, limited, phenomenal aspect of the Self.

There's something to be said for embracing who you are.

Alix [ MacKenzie] had stopped teaching because we had a child and she stayed home to take care of the baby, and I taught.

The prudent capitalist will never adventure his capital . . . if there exists a state of uncertainty as to whether the Government will repeal tomorrow what it has enacted today.