You just don't know writers. They'll use anything, anybody. They'll eat their young.
Metaphor is embodied in language.
I was given talent, and if you are given it, it is your obligation to use it.
That vision of a common culture is now simply a remote wistfulness.
The knowledge that we have about what it is to be human that we have as a child is something we necessarily must lose.
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.