There's a palace in your head, boy. Learn to live in it always.

Study yourself the way a hunter studied prey. Exploit your own weaknesses to create desired changes within yourself.

There's a palace in your head, boy. Learn to live in it always.

He read me extracts from a medical journal describing the progress of a staphylococcus aureus infection. And then he pleasured me with a potato.

Remember it's all just a mirror we made to see ourselves in.

Metaphor is one of a group of problem-solving medicines known as figures of speech which are normally used to treat literal thinking and other diseases.

It's always interesting to see what the real enthusiasts think, but they're rarely representative of the tastes of the wider audience, so I tend to write for myself, for an imagined smart 14-year-old, and for a couple of friends who are still big comics fans.