The Living Dead

There was something about clowns that was worse than zombies. (Or maybe something that was the same. When you see a zombie, you want to laugh at first. When you see a clown, most people get a little nervous. There's the pallor and the cakey mortician-style makeup, the shuffling and the untidy hair. But clowns were probably malicious, and they moved fast on those little bicycles and in those little crammed cars. Zombies weren't much of anything. They didn't carry musical instruments and they didn't care whether or not you laughed at them. You always knew what zombies wanted.)

Dying hurts," said Ari. "It won't make you happy. It won't make anybody happy.

Everyone always seems happier than Soap, and as if they know something that Soap doesn't.

The universe has no opinion of us. No matter how much we want to pretend, real life does not contain the quality of story. No arcs, no morals, no meaning. Life is what we make of it.

scratch the surface and we were all going nuts in a thousand quiet ways.

Copernicus formulated the heliocentric model of the solar system in the mid-1500s, but the Church didn't get around to punishing anyone for it until they threw Galileo in jail nearly a hundred years later.

Some people thought of vampires as rock stars, but really they were more like Martha Stewart. Vampires were prissy. They had to follow rules. They had to look good.

quoting Pope. " 'Words are like leaves, where they most abound, beneath, little fruit or sense is found.

I have been conditioned by Philip Morris," he said with a smile.