There's no fury more righteous than that of a sinner accused of the wrong sin.

Imagine your shadow burning off the page / As the dear world and the dead word disengage

We turn from the light to see.

Lakoff's idea is that most of our thought is guided by underlying conceptual mappings between two domains that share some content, that overlap in the sets of their attributes. ... Contrary to the assertions of Lakoff and some of the cognitive metaphor theorists, people can read through to an underlying mapping, but only when the surface metaphor is new to them.

We could easily have evolved eyelids thick enough to keep out the light, but we still need to see the shadows fall across them. We're not yet safe.

Mediocre art is far worse than bad art. Bad art does not waste our time.

Inconveniently, books are all the pages in them, not just the ones you choose to read.