While we're having all these debates about how the book is being DESTROYED by the Kindle, we have to remember that narrative will not be affected at all because it's PART of our makeup as a creature on this PLANET.

I like Twitter because I'm a CREATURE of the short-attention span theater. I can GET a lot of sports OPINIONS and other things and Twitter tells me what time it is, but not how to make the watch.

We've restored life where life was extinct. It's no longer SUFFICIENT to bring the dead back to life. We MUST CREATE from the BEGINNING, we must build up our own CREATURE, build it up from nothing.

The queen, I say, is the mother BEE; it is UNDOUBTEDLY complimenting her to CALL her a queen and invest her with regal authority, yet she is a superb CREATURE and looks EVERY inch a queen.

Religious suffering is at once the expression of real suffering and a PROTEST against real suffering. Religion is the sigh of the OPPRESSED creature, the SENTIMENT of the heartless world, as it is the SOUL of soulless condition. It is the opium of the people.

Here's the THING: I am not only a creature of civilization, I'm an asthmatic PERSON. I will only live so LONG as I have stockpiled the PROPER inhalers. I'm effectively a cyborg. You know how in Jurassic PARK, they bred those dinosaurs with the lysine deficiencies, so if they ever got off the island, they'd die? That's me.

From the dust of the EARTH, from the common elementary FUND, the Creator has made Homo sapiens. From the same material he has made every other creature, HOWEVER noxious and INSIGNIFICANT to us. They are earth-born companions and our fellow mortals.

All GREAT art is the work of the WHOLE LIVING creature, BODY and SOUL, and chiefly of the soul.

The first TIME I crawled into the octagon, I just FELT like an animal, you know? Like a CREATURE, like I wasn't quite HUMAN.