It seems disingenuous to ask a writer why she, or he, is writing about a violent subject when the world and history are filled with violence. – Joyce Carol Oates
I think the first virtue is to restrain the tongue; he approaches nearest to gods who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right. – Cato The Elder
There once was a sculptor called Phidias Who had a distaste for the hideous. So he sculpt Aphrodite Without any nightie Which shocked the ultra-fastidious. – Anon.
