Honesty is the best policy; a policy is, after all, a strategy for living in the polis — in the city … - Samuel R. Delany

Suppose I was researching, not the life of some genius philosopher with his books and articles and a wake of articulate friends and acquaintances, but rather, a homeless kid in and out of mental hospitals for chronic masturbation and indecent exposure?...How would I even start?

You're living in the real world now," Spider said sadly. "It's come from something. It's going to something. Myths always lie in the most difficult places to ignore.

It is far easier to argue that something nobody believes in actually exists than it is to argue that something everybody believes in is unreal.