I'm the only American alive or dead who presided unhappily over the removal of a vice president and a president.
When you're around the whole Dead scene, they're there as a tribal thing; they're there as part of a rendezvous and a pow-wow.
When people think about reparations, they immediately think about people who've been dead for 100 years.
It took a while for anyone to want to publish 'To Repel Ghosts.' I thought people would want to publish a three-hundred-and-fifty-page book about a dead painter, but they didn't.
New research shows that you will be dead longer than you will be alive.
Anything remotely resembling news media is going to continue to migrate online until very little or none of it is produced on dead trees.
Originally, when I was introduced to yoga, I kept resisting. I kept saying that I wouldn't be caught dead doing yoga.
The whole point about historians is that we are really communing with the dead. It's very restful - because you read. There's some sociopathic problem that makes me prefer it to human interaction.
Normally, you should be dead if you have a retrospective.
The 1910 Edison film of 'Frankenstein' was itself a dead thing revived by technology.
Quick as lightning Wild Bill pulled his revolver. The stranger fell dead, shot through the brain.
The day of parts of the country hating each other, or rivalries like that... I feel like that's dead.
There's always people saying that rock is dead, rock is over. People are always out to kill rock and roll.
What makes the most money for this business? Dead rock stars.
We were romantics in the 1990s and thought that communism was dead. But 10 years passed, and Putin came, and it became obvious that the process is reversible; that communism will, to varying degrees, return again and again.
When I first started working on 'Staying Dead,' I got some well-meaning but negative feedback from industry folk because - back in 2001 - epic fantasy was still the big thing, alternate history a tight runner-up.
The idea of writer as sage is pretty much dead today. I would certainly feel very uncomfortable in the role.
I've never taken a scalpel to a dead body.
When I am dead, I hope it may be said: His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.
I'm not a person who's obsessed with scary movies or horror films or anything like that, so when I was watching the original 'Walking Dead,' I was kind of surprised at how into it I was getting.
