Life and Death

"As soon as we die we enter into fiction." - Hilary Mantell

"Life was unfair but it had nothing on death." - Scott Kikkawa

"Reality is the last thing I need in my life these days." - Andy Zaltzman 

 "Horror never scares me. It's real life that scares me."  - Ellen Datlow

"Life is open book and a group project." - Ho Hum

"Most obits are mixed reviews." - Paul Simon

"Once a hole is a grave it doesn't like to be empty." - Steve Hockensmith

"The dead are very, very right-wing." - David Mitchell

 "After you been dead, everything's easier.  Isn't it?" - David Mamet

"Every eulogy is a closing argument." - Jon Lovett

"Living for today is not doing nothing." - William Dietrich, slightly revised.

"My life is based on a true story." - C.R. Avery

"Life is full of disappointments, and I am full of life." - John Gorka

"I don't so much lead my life as drag it behind me."  - Lorrie B. Potters

"In the end all our stories must be too short."  -James Powell

"When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard,' I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what?'" - Sydney J. Harris

"When you're doing research, never skip the footnotes." -Jeri Westerson

"If you can't laugh at your life, it's going to be a long life." - Heather Haven.

“Life is ten percent carrot and ninety percent stick.” -Donald E. Westlake

“Life is much nicer with sanitation.” -Jonathan Kellerman

"A day without sunshine is like, you know, night." -Steve Martin

“No one ever risked his life for anything that couldn’t be expressed in two syllables.” - Geoffrey Household.

“This life is a thump-ripe melon, so sweet and such a mess.” - Greg Brown

“Since I began writing, fiction books have become little more than warmed-up news, and news has become little more than warmed-up fiction.” – Len Deighton

“Life isn’t divided into genres. It’s a horrifying, romantic, tragic, comical, science-fiction, cowboy detective novel. You know, with a bit of pornography if you’re lucky.” – Alan Moore.

"I was some of the mud that got to sit up and look around. Lucky me, lucky mud." -Kurt Vonnegut, jr.

"Even if we don't know what there is to live for, we all want to carry on living." -John Diamond

"More flesh, more worms." -Rabbi Hillel

"Life is so dangerous that there's nothing to fear." -Libby Roderick

"So good to be alive when the eulogies are read." -Phil Ochs

"I used to feel sorry for myself because I had no shoes until I met a man who was dead." -John R. Christianson

"Life really does go on whether you're enjoying it or not." -Kendall Morse

"In lives as in works of art there are few masterpieces." -Michael Novak

"Life is not fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all." -William Goldman

"Life is lethal but the cure is worse." -Zeke Hoskin

"Don't wake the dead. They won't like it." -Michael Avallone