The winter passed as slowly and peacefully as a boa constrictor digesting a valium addict.

Words on a page can hypnotize you if the rhythm is right

Dreamily the Princess stood up. "I'm not sure if I can walk," she said. "Then I'll carry you." "Is that what love is?" "I no longer know what love is. A week ago I had a lot of ideas. What love is and how to make it stay. Now that I'm in love, I haven't a clue. Now that I'm in love, I'm completely stupid on the subject.

Much more than an entertaining set of exaggerated facts, fiction is a metaphoric method of describing, dramatizing and condensing historical events, personal actions, psychological states and the symbolic knowledge encoded within the collective unconscious; things, events and conditions that are otherwise too diffuse and/or complex to be completely digested or appreciated by the prevailing culture.

The function of the artist is to provide what life does not.

The first time that she spread her legs for him it had been like opening her jaws for the dentist.

You are an ignorant schoolgirl. You think civilization is a good thing.