Now there is a society where the funeral industry got completely out of control.

A thirteen-year-old is a kaleidoscope of different personalities, if not in most ways a mere figment of her own imagination. At that age, what and who you are depends largely on what book you happen to be reading at the moment.

I have nothing against undertakers personally. It's just that I wouldn't want one to bury my sister.

Picking other people's brains is an art worth cultivating.

Prison walls are meant not only to keep convicts in, but to keep the would-be investigator out.

Gracious dying is a huge, macabre and expensive joke on the American public.

Things on the whole are faster in America; people don't stand for election, they run for office. If a person says he's sick, it doesn't mean regurgitating, it means ill. Mad means angry, not insane. Don't ask for the left-luggage; it's called a checkroom.