Nothing has ever looked like that ever in all of human history.

Witness also that when we talk about literature, we do so in the present tense. When we speak of the dead, we are not so kind.

there is no best and no worst, ...those judgments have no real meaning because there is only what is

And in my classes, I will talk most of the time, and you will listen most of the time. Because you may be smart, but I've been smart longer.

That's the mystery, isn't it? Is the labyrinth living or dying? Which is he trying to escape---the world or the end of it?

You know what I hate? The outdoors. I mean, generally. I don't like outside. I'm an inside person. I'm all about refrigeration and indoor plumbing and Judge Judy.

You can't just make yourself matter and then die, Alaska, because now I am irretrievably different.