“Canada is built on dead beavers.”

“Now that I am dead, I know everything.”

“To pronounce the name of the dead is to make them live again.”

“You're dead, Cordelia.'No I'm not.'Yes you are. You're dead.Lie down.”

“I'd like another dimension of space, and also the tombs and the dead women, please.”

“Glenn used to say the reason you can't really imagine yourself being dead was that as soon as you say, 'I'll be dead,' you've said the word I, and so you're still alive inside the sentence. And that's how people got the idea of the immortality of the soul - it was a consequence of grammar.”

“Here and there are worms, evidence of the fertility of the soil, caught by the sun, half dead; flexible and pink, like lips.”