"Not that there seems to be any appropriate place to bury someone, but these municipal cemeteries, or any cemetery at all for that matter, like the ones by the highway, or the ones in the middle of town, with all these bodies with their corresponding rocks - oh it's just too primitive and vulgar, isn't it? The hole, and the box, and the rock on the grass? And we glamorize this process, feel it fitting and dramatic, austerely beautiful, standing there by the hole as we lower the box. It's incredible. Barbaric and base."

"Status in itself is criminal for those with the means to move, and the means to weave communion between people."

"The death of a young person for no reason is an apocalypse."

"Grief doesn't arrive on schedule, as much as we'd like to."