“Unless you are educated in metaphor, you are not safe to be let loose in the world.”
“Unless you are at home in the metaphor, you are not safe anywhere.”
“If you let the alembic cool, metaphor becomes superstition.”
“Irony sucks, you know?"Roger nodded. "That it does. Safely confined to the pages of novels, it's an interesting rhetorical device; encountered loose in the real world, it's a beast with steel claws and mirrors for eyes.”
“you don't see something until you have the right metaphor to let you perceive it”
“If you want to change the world, you have to change the metaphor.”