"When small men begin to cast long shadows, it means the sun is about to set." - Lin Yutang
"Sometimes Tom Sawyer just runs out of paint." - Kinky Friedman
“Think of cremation as an extreme tanning bed.” – Timothy Miller
"Real life rarely provides a credible reflection of fiction, and should therefore not be taken too seriously." - Mat Coward
"You've got to speak well of the dead, especially if you outlive them." - Desiree Burch
"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
