‘True philosophy does not dismiss ambiguities and aporias as meaningless or nonsensical, but instead recognizes them as moments of possible awakening from unexamined prejudices, and explores them in as many modalities and with as much subtlety as possible.’
David Bentley Hart, ‘A Bark Without a Bite’

‘ Genre fans – accept that works of art are works of art and not anthropological documents about a real place that just happens to not exist: Challenge difficulty – Impossible.’
— James Holloway

‘[I]s there a named creature that makes pictures askew?’
— Michelle Farran

‘If you get a bargain it doesn’t argue back with you. It just, sort of, sits there and is nice to you.’
— Shirley Neale

‘The God of the underworld, Pluto, is Isodaitēs, the divider into equal portions.’
— Richard Seaford, Money and the Ancient Greek Mind

‘The smack of the waves on the shoreline sounded like a sheet of glass breaking.’
— June-Alison Gibbons, The Pepsi-Cola Addict

‘I am only infallible if I speak infallibly but I shall never do that, so I am not infallible.’
— John XXIII

‘[T]he balance has tilted towards writers who really love doing homework – they see the novel as homework, something you get a good star on.’
— Joanne McNeil, ‘what joanne is reading’

‘Every generation selects a favoured character-type based on a value. We live in an age that, in valorising “personal agency”, lays across the individual’s shoulders one of the heaviest double-binds a culture can construct: glad I wasn’t born into it.’
— M John Harrison, Wish I Was Here

‘Once and for all, stop eavesdropping on strangers talking about you in this crowded and filthy global toilet known as social media.’
— Naomi Klein, Doppelganger