“There is no such thing as a dead language, only a dead lay that's a little too quiet for my tastes.”
“There's no such thing as dead languages, only dormant minds.”
“the communication/of the dead is tongued with fire beyond/the language of the living"--The Little Gidding”
“Dead or not, he must taste my Sarah's ashes.”
“In order to know that you're dead, you have to be conscious. . . but if you're conscious, then you're not dead. the only thing you can know is being alive, so that's eternity.”
“I want to write my own eulogy, and I want to write it in Latin. It seems only fitting to read a dead language at my funeral.”