“Being Dead means very light housekeeping”
“The only advantage of not being too good a housekeeper is that your guests are so pleased to feel how very much better they are. ”
“For it must be very lonely being dead.”
“Cynicism is not realistic and tough. It's unrealistic and kind of cowardly because it means you don't have to try. ---in Good Housekeeping”
“Mrs. Joe was a very clean housekeeper, but had an exquisite art of making her cleanliness more uncomfortable and unacceptable than dirt itself.”
“Even the smallest of things can be frightening in well-written horror (this means very little, or preferably no, dead space.)”