I'm more interested in the meaning of funerals and the mourning that people do. It's not a retail experience. It's an existential one.

I'm more interested in the meaning of funerals and the mourning that people do. It's not a retail experience. It's an existential one.

Let no one weep for me, or celebrate my funeral with mourning; for I still live, as I pass to and fro through the mouths of men

I went on spouting bullshit Encouragements as Gus's parents, arm in arm, hugged each other and nodded at every word. Funerals, I had decided, are for the living.

I never saw a dollar bill cry at anyone's funeral.

True friends appear less mov'd than counterfeit; As men that grieve at funerals are not so loud as those that cry for hire