So the freshness lives on in a lemon, in the…

We open the halves of a miracle, and a clotting of acids brims into the starry divisions: creation's original juices, irreducible, changeless, alive: so…

— Pablo Neruda

Don't worry, fairy vomit is no doubt sweet-smelling to humans.

— Martin Millar

Flowers never emit so sweet and strong a fragrance as before a storm. When a storm approaches thee, be as fragrant as a sweet-smelling…

— Jean Paul

“I press my face against her sweet-smelling hair. “You’ll always be my allure.”

— Nina Lane

I keep returning to the combination of artichoke, broad beans and lemon. The freshness of young beans and the lemon juice 'lifts' the artichoke…

— Yotam Ottolenghi

Unfortunately for a multitude of occultists, humor is a rare ingredient in their lives. In fact it is their very lack of humor that…

— Anton Szandor LaVey

“All you need to know about the light is in being in the dark.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

The argument about marriage equality will one day seem as arcane and shocking to us as the fact that Rosa Parks had to get…

— Uma Thurman

One of the leading uses of photography by the mass media came to be called photojournalism. From the late 'twenties' to the early 'fifties'…

— John Szarkowski

I myself delve into very arcane things.

— Christopher Guest

We should take comfort in two conjoined features of nature: first, that our world is incredibly strange and therefore supremely fascinating, second, that however…

— Stephen Jay Gould

“This is how you hustle the arcane. Skirt the rules but don’t break them.”

— Victor LaValle

“The House is valuable because it is the House. It is enough in and of Itself. It is not the means to an end.”

— Susanna Clarke

Literary theory has become a parody of science, generating its own arcane jargon. In the process, tragically, it discourages love of literature for its…

— Nancy Pearcey

We need to think about encryption not as this sort of arcane, black art. It's a basic protection.

— Edward Snowden