Pigs possess a certain native intelligence and common sense by and large missing from our greater poets. When despair lays its clammy paws across the… - Esther Friesner

Satanism? In Whitman?
"Mmm-hmm." She threaded her arm through his. "You can find Satanism in everything if you've got the right sort of mind and you look hard enough."

When the majority is crazy, the sane ones are kept in asylums. She knew that well; she’d majored in World History.

The shortest way to multiply damnations is to divide mortals. Fear’s a great one for that—fear the stranger, fear the different, fear the afflicted—long as you can keep your pigeons so damn scared there’s no room in them to even try to figure out whether there’s anything real to be scared of in the first place.