A figure of speech is a shifty thing; it can be twisted or it can be straight.

One of the characteristics of mudslinging is that mud sticks if it's thrown with enough force for long enough.

Vertigo is the conflict between the fear of falling and the desire to fall.

The time-honored role of the artist [is] to speak truth to power.

Original thought, original artistic expression is by its very nature questioning, irreverent, iconoclastic.

Why obliterate the exceptional merely in order to make the outstanding look finer than it was?

In the real world, immeasurable hurt is caused by terrorists based in Pakistan who attack countries like India.