dead Quotes

“I always have one or two, sometimes more, Navajo or other tribes' cultural elements in mind when I start a plot. In Thief of Time, I wanted to make readers aware of Navajo attitude toward the dead, respect for burial sites.”

“It's funny the way most people love the dead. Once you are dead, you are made for life.”

“To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.”

“I'm 86 and my doctor used to tell me to slow down - at least he did until he dropped dead.”

“There's nothing in the world more silent than the telephone the morning after everybody pans your play. It won't ring from room service your mother won't be calling you. If the phone has not rung by 8 in the morning, you're dead.”

“When I am dead, I hope it may be said: His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.”

“An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious - just dead wrong.”

“The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions.”

“Alimony is like buying hay for a dead horse.”

“The stones themselves are thick with history, and those cats that dash through the alleyways must surely be the ghosts of the famous dead in feline disguise.”