
“It matters, it always matters, to name rubbish as rubbish … to do otherwise is to legitimize it.”
"Outside The Whale" in Granta (1984) http://web.archive.org/web/20110618004653/http://www.granta.com/Magazine/11/Outside-the-Whale/Page-2
Coping With series, Coping With Christmas (1999)
“It matters, it always matters, to name rubbish as rubbish … to do otherwise is to legitimize it.”
"Outside The Whale" in Granta (1984) http://web.archive.org/web/20110618004653/http://www.granta.com/Magazine/11/Outside-the-Whale/Page-2
“The Venus flytrap, a devouring organism, aptly named for the goddess of love.”
Source: Suddenly Last Summer
“I'd rather be pleasantly surprised than fatally disappointed.”
Source: I See You Everywhere
Source: The Revival of Aristocracy (1906), p. 37.
Review http://www.reelviews.net/php_review_template.php?identifier=1484 of Dumb and Dumberer (2003).
Zero star reviews
Never Born, Never Died (2002)
Context: Tao mystics never talk about God, reincarnation, heaven, hell. No, they don't talk about these things. These are all creations of human mind: explanations for something which can never be explained, explanations for the mystery. In fact, all explanations are against God because explanation de-mystifies existence. Existence is a mystery, and one should accept it as a mystery and not pretend to have any explanation. No, explanation is not needed — only exclamation, a wondering heart, awakened, surprised, feeling the mystery of life each moment. Then, and only then, you know what truth is. And truth liberates.
“We are such things as rubbish is made of, so let's drink up and forget it.”
Source: Long Day's Journey Into Night
“Oh! breathe not his name, let it sleep in the shade,
Where cold and unhonour'd his relics are laid.”
Oh Breathe Not His Name, st. 1.
Irish Melodies http://www.musicanet.org/robokopp/moore.html (1807–1834)