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...

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.....

Auschwitz begins wherever someone looks at a slaughterhouse and thinks: they’re only animals.

Explore the infinite possibilities in existence.

It is better to die than carry the burden of expectations, you die every moment then, bearing situations you are not supposed to put up with.

Fiction structures an experience for the reader to live through. ... That is why people read: to have experiences.

I really like fashion, but I'm not a fashionista by any means.

The whole truth... sings only - and all lovers are the song.

It is sort of a disease when you consider yourself some kind of god, the creator of everything, but I feel comfortable about it now since I began to live it out.

The final test of truth is ridicule. Very few dogmas have ever faced it and survived.

I have no confidence in any religion that can be demonstrated only to children.

I've always leaned toward a feminine, funky style, even in business settings. I used to paint my nails blue in 1993, before it was mainstream.