Jody McGrath

“Humanity is a parade of fools and I'm at the front, twirling a baton”
― Dean Koontz

“The early anatomists were dealing with a chronic shortage of bodies for dissection, and consequently were motivated to come up with ways to preserve the ones they managed to obtain. Blanchard’s textbook was the first to cover arterial embalming. He describes opening up an artery, flushing the blood out with water, and pumping in alcohol. I’ve been to frat parties like that.”
― Mary Roach, Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers

“He nodded. “Someone really would get suspicious if they saw you roaming around. If I need you I’ll give you a signal.” “What signal?” “I’ll imitate the scream of a terrified little girl,” he said with a waggle of his eyebrows. He headed out the door. “Back in a minute.”
― Jim Butcher, Dead Beat

“I guess I feel the same way about being a corpse. Why lie around on your back when you can do something interesting and new, something useful?”
― Mary Roach, Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers