Quote

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.

A funeral was a great form of entertainment. A wake was a great form of entertainment.

There is something irresistibly funny about a funeral. More basically, I think the point is that beyond the deepest tragedy, there is laughter. Even in the midst of tragedy, there is always the possibility for it.

The biggest problem is the funerals that don't exist. People call the funeral home, they pick up the body, they mail the ashes to you, no grief, no happiness, no remembrance, no nothing. That happens more often than it doesn't in the United States.

In Arab culture, music is for celebration. You don't play music at funerals.

These funerals always appear to me the more indecent in a populous city, from the total indifference of the beholders, and the perfect unconcern with which they are beheld.

I've a great fancy to see my own funeral afore I die.

If you love helping people, and you love trying to bring comfort and peace to their life at a very, very difficult time, you're going to have to look pretty hard to find a profession that gives you more opportunities than the funeral business.

The reason so many people turned up at his funeral is that they wanted to make sure he was dead.

You should always go to other people's funerals; otherwise, they won't come to yours.