We've traveled too far, and our momentum has taken over; we move idly towards eternity, without possibility of reprieve or hope of explanation.

Carnal embrace is the practice of throwing one's arms around a side of beef.

GUIL: A scientific approach to the examination of phenomena is a defence against the pure emotion of fear

James Joyce - an essentially private man who wished his total indifference to public notice to be universally recognized.

If you want to change something by Tuesday, theater is no good. Journalism is what does that. But, if you want to just alter the chemistry of the moral matrix, then theater has a longer half-life.

I'm hopeless at looking into myself and trying to see how things are working and why.

When you stir your rice pudding, Septimus, the spoonful of jam spreads itself round making red trails like the picture of a meteor in my astronomical atlas. But if you stir backwards, the jam will not come together again. Indeed, the pudding does not notice and continues to turn pink just as before. Do you think this is odd?