I’ll take any opportunity to quote from bookslut, but this interview with Paul L. Bates about his new book Imprint has some real nuggets:

Antisocial denial allows one to find all the pearls lying in the road that everyone else misses. Social denial allows one to find the string to hold those pearls together.

Ahhh… a day without mind-bending semantic metaphors is like a day without slightly-greasy solar particles.