“Take the dead from the dead, the old proverb said; only a corpse may speak true prophecy.”

“Speaking personally, you can have my gun, but you'll take my book when you pry my cold, dead fingers off of the binding.”

“If a book is not alive in the writer's mind, it is as dead as year-old horse shit.”

“And then the car was beside him, not idling but panting like a deadly animal which may or may not be tamed.”

“Dead was the gift that kept on giving. Dead, likediamonds, was forever.”

“downtown Derry looked only marginally more charming than a dead hooker in a church pew.”

“I don't want Church to be like all those dead pets! she burst out, suddenly tearful and furious. I don't want Church to ever be dead! He's my cat! He's not God's cat! Let God have all the damn old cats He wants, and kill them all! Church is mine!”