"Either you think--or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you," Fitzgerald, Tender Is The Night.

"She was looking into my eyes with that way she had of looking that made you wonder whether she really saw out of her own eyes. They would look on and on after every one else's eyes in the world would have stopped looking. She looked as though there were nothing on earth she would not look at like that, and really she was afraid of so many things... Her eyes had different depths, sometimes they seemed perfectly flat. Now you could see all the way into them," Hemmingway, The Sun Also Rises.

Grow food in dirt? Save time--eat dirt.

The Ogre philosopher Gnerdel believed the purpose of life was to live as high on the food chain as posssible. She refused to eat vegetarians, preferring to live entirely on creatures that preyed on sentient beings.

You deify nature as female--kind and gentle--yet you cringe at what is natural.

Those who fear the darkness have never seen what the light can do.

The secret of destruction is simple: everything burns.