• "I would argue that most humans love metaphors, because so much human thinking is symbolic. Like, we imagine a meningitis headache as a "vice gripping our head". And if we can imagine, like, particularly original or compelling metaphors, it can help people to imagine what we're feeling! So good metaphors make my experiences more real to you, and yours more real to me, which is kind of what language is supposed to do, right?"

- John Green