He was asking too many questions and he was asking them too quickly. They were stacking up in my head like loaves in the factory where Uncle Terry works. The factory is a bakery and he operates the slicing machines. And sometimes a slicer is not working fast enough but the bread keeps coming and there is a blockage. I sometimes think of my mind as a machine, but not always as a bread-slicing machine. It makes it easier to explain to other people what is going on inside it.
Who said anything about slicing you up?. . . I just wanted to carve a little Z on your forehead-- nothing serious.
I used to go to the driving range to practice driving without slicing. Now I go to practice slicing without swearing.
I am sunlight slicing the dark.
My face becomes a Picasso sketch, my body slicing into pieces.
What if a kid goes to school after seeing Kill Bill and starts slicing up other kids? You know, I'll take that chance! Violent films don't turn children into violent people. They may turn them into violent filmmakers but that's another matter altogether.
The universe would appear to be something like a piece of cheese; it can be sliced in an infinite number of ways- and when one has chosen his own pattern of slicing, he finds that other men's cuts fall at the wrong places.
M F K Fisher is the dowager queen of writers on browsing and slicing.