Anesthetic Quotes

If you aren't creeped out by the No Birth Control Left Behind rhetoric of the White House and Planned Parenthood, you aren't listening closely enough. The anesthetic of progressive benevolence always dulls the senses. Wake up.

Married sex is like being awake during your own autopsy. It is root canal work without anesthetic.

Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity.

The interesting thing is why we're so desperate for this anesthetic against loneliness.

Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.

With a novelist, like a surgeon, you have to get a feeling that you've fallen into good hands - someone from whom you can accept the anesthetic with confidence.

Each wrong act brings with it its own anesthetic, dulling the conscience and blinding it against further light, and sometimes for years.