My work from the last 25 years has been asking people to see differently.
At some point, some insect has had sex with a leaf.
Your dreams should never be better than your real life
They've found this spider, in the jungle. Three foot long, it eats chicken. Bit weird, innit. People moan saying that you shouldn't lock animals up and all the rest of it, but to be honest I wish it was locked up. The idea that it's roaming in a jungle. . . get it locked up.
If you’re not happy looking a knob in the face, there’s something wrong.
Being honest with you, it's not the 'great' wall of China. It's an all right wall. It's the 'All Right Wall of China. '
With identical twins, you always get a little snidey one.
Writing, or at least good writing, is an outgrowth of that urge to use language to communicate complex ideas and experiences between people. And that's true whether you're reading Shakespeare or bad vampire fiction-reading is always an act of empathy. It's always an imagining of what it's like to be someone else.
The Americans, they always depend on a method what I call. . . stupid, silly. All I ask is check yourself. Do not in fact repeat their lies.
I think that a lot of times, I trust people I shouldn't, and it turns out right, and it makes me feel a little better about it.
Denial is a critical part of the human coping mechanism. Without it, we would all wake up terrified every morning about all the ways we could die. Instead, our minds block out our existential fears by focusing on stresses we can handle—like getting to work on time or paying our taxes.