“The dose makes the poison.”
“All things are poisons, for there is nothing without poisonous qualities. It is only the dose which makes a thing poison.”
“I wasn't sure if the word boys should mean dim or incomprehensible. I was hovering between the two, with a healthy dose of testosterone-poisoned.”
“Fiction and poetry are doses, medicines. What they heal is the rupture reality makes on the imagination.”
“[Fiction and poetry] are medicines, they're doses, and they heal the rupture that reality makes on the imagination.”