Metaphor is embodied in language.
The strangest thing that human speech and human writing can do is create a metaphor. That is an amazing leap, is it not?
You just don't know writers. They'll use anything, anybody. They'll eat their young.
The loss of Eden is personally experienced by every one of us as we leave the wonder and magic and also the pains and terrors of childhood.
I think childhood is to everyone a lost land.
It is a dangerous thing to have instant access to your emotions.