You have to live where you wake up, even if someone else dreamed you there.

You can't cure a chipped plate. All you can do is live with it or throw it out.

I've always believed human blood is red because it really needs to draw attention to itself.

When I was at college there were two things I vowed I'd never do. One was go to a funeral and the other was deal with computers. And then I ended up being a computer programmer in a morgue.

I'm very, very sensitive to pain and to people who suffer.

I've never taken a scalpel to a dead body.

I'm always surprised when large numbers of people buy my books.