“She said he just looked as if he was asleep, he looked that peaceful and resigned. No one would think he'd make such a beautiful corpse.”
“A corpse is meat gone bad. Well and what's cheese? Corpse of milk. ”
“What? Corpus. Body. Corpse. Good idea the Latin. Stupifies them first. Hospice for the dying. They don't seem to chew it; only swallow it down.”
“I think I would know Nora's fart anywhere. I think I could pick hers out in a roomful of farting women.”
“If anyone thinks that I amn't divineHe'll get no free drinks when I'm making the wineBut have to drink water and wish it were plainThat I make when the wine becomes water again.”
“The object of the artist is the creation of the beautiful. What the beautiful is is another question.”