“The faces of the panel listening were the very embodiment of skepticism made flesh.”

“Being embodied in flesh that decomposes and that is inscribed with all manner of cultural values not of your choosing is also a state of emergency.”

“It is assumed that the skeptic has no bias; whereas he has a very obvious bias in favour of skepticism.”

“On a warm spring day, a galloping horse was only too clearly a sweating animal of flesh and blood. But a horse racing through a snowstorm became one with the very elements; wrapped in the whirling blast of the north wind, the beast embodied the icy breath of winter.”

“And the people listened, and their faces were quiet with listening. The story tellers, gathering attention into their tales, spoke in great rhythms, spoke in great words because the tales were great, and the listeners became great through them.”

“It’s not the word made flesh we want in writing, in poetry and fiction, but the flesh made word”