A nice, easy place for freedom of speech to be eroded is comics, because comics are a natural target whenever an election comes up.

I was a stranger and you took me in. -Joji G. Shoji, d. 1921

Notoriety wasn't as good as fame, but was heaps better than obscurity.

She had such unusual eyes. They made me think of the seaside, and so I called her Ocean, and could not have told you why.

All around me darkness gathers, Fading is the sun that shone, We must speak of other matters, You can be me when I'm gone Flowers gathered in the morning, Afternoon they blossom on, Still are withered in the evening, You can be me when I'm gone.

I tend to think of fear and humour as very, very close together. And to be honest I think pornography completes the triangle, because they are things that to work need to evoke a certain reaction.

The cat dropped the rat between its two front paws. "There are those," it said with a sigh, in tones as smooth as oiled silk, "who have suggested that the tendency of a cat to play with its prey is a merciful one - after all, it permits the occasional funny little running snack to escape, from time to time. How often does your dinner get to escape?