Understudy for Death Quotes

“Newspaper readers are a morbid lot, Mrs. Chatham; they enjoy reading about death in every form.”
― Charles Willeford, Understudy for Death

“A small middle-aged man, he made the word “wizened” his very own.”
― Charles Willeford, Understudy for Death

“Suicide, more than any other form of death makes people indignant, that's why. The life force is all we have, and when people kill themselves, it frightens the survivors.”
― Charles Willeford, Understudy for Death

“The fact that his shaggy goatee made his face resemble an unkempt armpit was his problem, not mine.”
― Charles Willeford, Understudy for Death