Try imagining James Joyce not writing about being a Catholic.

The work of a queasy undergraduate scratching his pimples.
[on James Joyce's Ulysses]

What's beautiful about Godzilla is, of course, it's in every way a symbol of Japan dealing with the aftermath of the atomic bombs being dropped on them, and their ideas of how they're affected by it.

My heart is quite calm now. I will go back.

The normal is that which nobody quite is. If you listen to seemingly dull people very closely, you'll see that they're all mad in different and interesting ways, and are merely struggling to hide it.

You can't write a story about a mental hospital in the United States without facing the grand example of 'Cuckoo's Nest.'