“Metaphor is awkward, but emotion, by its nature, leaves you no more scalable approach.”
“You should approach each book -- you should approach life -- with the real possibility that you might get a metaphorical boner at any point.”
“As far as rapprochements go, it's awkward and vague, but the advantage of being as emotionally inarticulate as we are is that it will do the trick.”
“It's like an emotional dance party: Some dances will be your favorites -- others more awkward or difficult to learn. Some will be boring or make you mad. some you will wish you never needed to do again. But AHA! You think. I will dance all the dances I can.”
“It's just that romance, with its dips and turns and glooms and highs, its swoops and swoons and blues, is a natural metaphor for music itself”
“The things you fear are undefeatablenot by their nature but by your approach”