"To be a prophet, Knox emphasizes, requires living in and looking at the present, at what is really going on around you."
- Anne Carson
"DEATH. . .And now you are here to fight for this woman.You know her promise is given.She has to die or her husband won't go free.APOLLORelax, I'm not breaking any laws.DEATHWhy the bow, if you're brea..."
"You could take the entirety of the common sense of humans and put it in the palm of your hand and still have room for your dick."
"Madness and witchery as well as bestiality are conditions commonly associated with the use of the female voice in public."
"Blessed be they whose lives do not taste of evilbut if some god shakes your houseruin arrivesruin does not leaveit comes tolling over the generationsit comes rolling the black night salt up from the o..."
"There is also a fable told by Phaedrus, about how Simonides was once a victim of shipwreck. As the other passengers scurried about the sinking ship trying to save their possessions, the poet stood idl..."
"at the bottom of the ocean is a layer of water that has never moved…"
"And the reason he cannot bear her dying is not the loss of her (which is the future) but that dying puts the two of them (now) into this nakedness together that is unforgivable."
"He had a respect for facts maybe this was one."
"Some conversations are not about what they're about."