The London Review of Books notices slang in the
Buffyverse. (via Momus) More.

A million reasons are no better than one
reason, but a million excuses delude better
than one. Hence, politics.

"Every time we defecate we lose 100,000
million microbes." --Desmond Morris, Intimate
Behavior (1971)

A painter should be no smarter than his fingers.

"Most readers, we have discovered, dislike
computer verse with intensity that borders on
moral censure." --introduction to Against
Infinity, Ernest Robson & Jet Wimp

People lack freedom to the precise degree that
they avoid self-criticism.

'...a cosmos where ice and fire are in eternal
conflict, and [a cosmos] in a hollow globe
surrounded by an infinite expanse of rock. Hitler
was asked to decide between them. His answer gives
food for thought: "Our conception of the world
need not be coherent. They may both be right." '
--The Morning of the Magicians

Art must be a wilderness howling among the voices.

"Desperately I strapped a dildo around my waist."
--Kathy Acker, Don Quixote

Only the colors move.