what we have now isn’t private enterprise, it’s lemon socialism: banks get the upside but taxpayers bear the risks. And it’s perpetuating zombie banks, blocking economic recovery.

—Krugman: NYT

It’s a lovely subject. Also a sad one.

—Truffaut

What bothers me is the ghost…Because the real theme is: If the dead were to come back, what would you do with them?

—Hitchcock on zombies, Mary Rose and presence