Words themselves - the very material of our discourse increasingly take on masks or disguises

The strangest thing that human speech and human writing can do is create a metaphor. That is an amazing leap, is it not?

Everything we do has consequences.

I also believe in cigarettes, cholesterol, alcohol, carbon monoxide, masturbation, the Arts Council, nuclear weapons, the Daily Telegraph, and not properly labeling fatal poisons, but above all else, most of all, I believe in the one thing that can come out of people's mouths: vomit.

People endure what they endure and they deal with it. It may corrupt them. It may lead them into all sorts of compensatory excesses.

As adults, we do know more, but we don't know enough. People can be very unthinkingly callous.

You just don't know writers. They'll use anything, anybody. They'll eat their young.