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.

lifelong enemies are, I think, as hard to make and as important to one's well-being as lifelong friends.

When is conduct a crime, and when is a crime not a crime? When "Somebody Up There" - a monarch, a dictator, a Pope, a legislator - so decrees.

O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? Where, indeed. Many a badly stung survivor, faced with the aftermath of some relative's funeral, has ruefully concluded that the victory has been won hands down by a funeral establishment - in disastrously unequal battle.

Things on the whole are much faster in America; people don't 'stand for election', they 'run for office.'