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

“Some necrophobes earn their own fates.”

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

“Cant call em zombies anymore, sighed Manny. He seemed almost wistful. Now we gotta be all politically correct. Its 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.”

“Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of wi...”

“My dear,Find what you love and let it kill you.Let it drain you of your all. Let it cling onto your back and weigh you down into eventual nothingness.Let it kill you and let it devour your remains....”

“If you gave someone your heart and they died, did they take it with them? Did you spend the rest of forever with a hole inside you that couldn't be filled?”

“It is better to be small, colorful, sexy, careless, and peaceful, like the flowers, than large, conservative, repressed, fearful, and aggressive, like the thunder lizards; a lesson, by the way, tha...”

“Nothing but truth is immortal.”

“I've put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant, and that is the only way of insuring one's immortality.”