"Greg Adkins"

“Melanie,’ I plucked up courage to ask at last, ‘why do you have such a funny name?’ She blushed. ‘When I was born I looked like a melon.’ ‘Don’t worry,’ I reassured her, ‘you don’t any more.”
― Jeanette Winterson, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

“Money culture recognises no currency but its own. Whatever is not money, whatever is not making money, is useless to it. The entire efforts of our government as directed through our society are efforts towards making more and more money. This favours the survival of the dullest.”
― Jeanette Winterson, Art Objects: Essays on Ecstasy and Effrontery

“Oh, ‘philosophy.’ You know. When you try to imagine a mirok [small pink potato] without the least reference to any you have eaten or will eat.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Bend Sinister

“Exterminators refer to old rats as Moby Dicks. “Rats that survive to the age of four are the wisest and the most cynical beasts on earth,” one exterminator says. “A trap means nothing to them, no matter how skillfully set. They just kick it around until it snaps; then they eat the bait. And they can detect poisoned bait a yard off. I believe some of them can read. If you get a few Moby Dicks in your house, there are just two things you can do: you can wait for them to die, or you can burn your house down and start all over again.”
― David Brendel, An Editor’s Burial: Journals and Journalism from the New Yorker and Other Magazines