Sharks are the criminals of the sea. Dolphins are the outlaws.

A child's mind is its living room; it's is going to be residing there for the rest of its earthly existence.

I mean that gods do not limit men. Men limit men.

I have never ever Googled myself, in fact I think the Christian right prohibits such things.

The author isn't altogether certain that there is any such thing as exaggeration. Our brains permit us to use such a wee fraction of their resources that, in a sense, everything we experience is a reduction. We employ drugs, yoga techniques and poetics - and a thousand more clumsy methods - in an effort just to bring things back up to normal.

Sometimes one gets the feeling that life still thinks it's living in Paris in the '30s.

Life is like a stew, you have to stir it frequently, or all the scum rises to the top.