It's easier to replace a dead man than a good picture.
I've spent so many years talking about poverty and economic justice, I'm strongly tempted to get biblical. Jesus' teachings are so radical; they're just insanely generous and apocalyptic. Christians become more fascinated by the dead Jesus. They don't like the living Jesus.
I'd like to help repair the earth's ecosystems, and to fully live until I'm fully dead.
Saint: A dead sinner revised and edited.
The Egyptian contribution to architecture was more concerned with remembering the dead than the living.
The natural effect of sorrow over the dead is to refine and elevate the mind.
Tombs are the clothes of the dead and a grave is a plain suit; while an expensive monument is one with embroidery.
I feel able to steal from Emily Dickinson because she's both wonderful and dead.
The Constitution that I interpret and apply is not living, but dead, or as I prefer to call it, enduring. It means, today, not what current society, much less the court, thinks it ought to mean, but what it meant when it was adopted.
Had we lived I should have had a tale to tell of the hardihood, endurance and courage of my companions which would have stirred the heart of every Englishman. These rough notes and our dead bodies must tell the tale.
Epitaph for a dead waiter - God finally caught his eye.
God is not a dead equation!
I do mourn my characters. I wrote an essay once where I was sure that far back in a marsh there was a hummock - a little hill of hardwoods - and an old farm house, where all the heroines in my novels lived together with all my beloved dead dogs. I've discussed this with my therapist, naturally. He says it's okay in fair amounts.
I wondered vaguely if this was when it would end, whether I would pull up tonight's darkness like a quilt and be dead and at peace evermore.
Everytime a child says 'I don't believe in fairies' there is a a little fairy somewhere that falls down dead.
There are all kinds of monuments to adults - usually dead and usually white. But we don't often lift up the extraordinary work of children.
I'm a big fan of a lot of graphic novels - 'Fables,' 'Y: The Last Man' and 'The Walking Dead,' which I like a lot more.
I had gotten a lot of acclaim for giving a previously dead franchise, 'Hawk & Dove,' a facelift.
It is not because other people are dead that our affection for them grows faint, it is because we ourselves are dying.
Every time a child says I don't believe in fairies there is a fairy somewhere that falls down dead.
