Life may be treacherous, but you can always depend on death.

I'll have your heart, if not by gift my knife Shall carve it out. I'll have your heart, your life.

I'm sorry to say my dear wife is a dreamer, and as she dreams she gets paler and leaner. Then be off to your Dream, with his fly-away hat, I stay with the girls who are happy and fat.

Death's not a separation or alteration or parting; it's just a one-handled door.

It is an amiable part of human nature, that we should love our animals; it is even better to love them to the point of folly, than not to love them at all.

I like food, I like stripping vegetables of their skins, I like to have a slim young parsnip under my knife.

Why does my muse only speak when she is uhnhappy? She does not, I only listen when I am unhappy.