In books there's nothing of the fish covered in the coldness of the sea, or the feeling of a star touching space. Bad for business.

Stab me if you can enjoy it - but not if it feels like a duty. Stab me vertically if I'm lying down and horizontally if I'm running

Since childhood I’d been suspected of imagination

Satire works in a bunch of specific ways, like a very precisely-geared bomb. It's a bit like something that looks harmless, and you swallow it, but once it's inside you it's too late, and it triggers, blowing up. And it's your specific inner beliefs and faulty arguments that trigger a satire bomb. If your arguments work, the bomb doesn't trigger, it doesn't need to.

The great thing about being ignored is that you can speak the truth with impunity.

The optimist sees the future as a rabbit sees the oncoming truck - getting bigger, not closer.

The law is where reality goes to die.