“We are given to the great, for great purpose, to great ends. We are given to the grave, for grave purposes, to grave ends.”

“The purpose of a chronicler of moods and deeds does not require him to express his personal views upon the grave controversy above given.”

“Pleasure represents a great good but also a grave danger.”

“Graves aren't for the dead. They're for the loved ones the dead leave behind them. Once those loved ones have gone, once all the lives that have touched the occupant of any given grave had ended, then the grave's purpose was fulfilled and ended. I suppose if you looked at it that way, one might as well decorate one's grave with an enormous statue or a giant temple. It gave people something to talk about, at least. Although, following that logic, I would need to have a roller coaster, or maybe a Tilt-A-Whirl constructed over my own grave when I died. Then even after my loved ones had moved on, people could keep having fun for years and years. Of course, I'd need a slightly larger plot.”

“We are all rotting, making our way from womb to tomb, to the rhythm of the great clock counting downward to the grave.”

“I shall not wholly die and a great part of me will escape the grave”