The paper does not provide the exact number of penises eaten by ducks, but the author says there have been enough over the years to prompt the coining of a popular saying: 'I better get home or the ducks will have something to eat.

There are people who would love to spend their last ten years, or five years, or whatever it is, on the surface of Mars.

Instead, I quietly excused myself and went to the bar, to commune with spirits I know how to relate to.

Sexual desire is a state not unlike hunger.

Worry lives a long way from rational thought."---Self

I don't write on topics that require a lot of urgency. But in 'Stiff,' I wanted to change people's hearts about organ donation. Whenever I get a chance, I try to talk about that.

I dont fear death so much as I fear its prologues: loneliness, decrepitude, pain, debilitation, depression, senility. After a few years of those, I imagine death presents like a holiday at the beach.