Sound gives life to our words just as well as the images they conjure up and the sound is there, whether or not we read them aloud.

A blank page is no empty space. It is brimming with potential... It is a masterpiece in waiting -- yours.

A man of the mouth, formerly the most oral of surgeons, Henry had the habit of giving his lady patients laughing gas, putting them out, then fiercely fucking them, while tugging on their wisdom teeth. His getting caught was a slip of the tongue, so to speak. While he was buried deep in a muff, some sharp thing slipped, and his prize patient, Mrs Mavis Gilette, woke to find a harpoon hole in her cheek and her lost licker languishing on the floor.

Almost anyone can be an author; the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being.

Tick, tock.

He was telling an interesting anecdote full of exciting words like "encyclopedia" and "rhododendron".