Center stage Quote by Allan McRobie

“I came to regard my body in a new light. For the first time I apprehended the little mounds on my chest as teats…

— Lionel Shriver

“Her body, sagging limply from her shoulders, contradicted the inflexible precision of the legs; the cold austerity of her face contradicted the pose of…

— Ayn Rand

“Her tenacity resembles nothing so much as a decapitated gila monster whose severed head still clings to the victim it has bitten. - (Our…

— Marvin Kaye

The gist of the Twist is chiefly in the hips

— Chubby Checker

When I talk about subtle bodies, causal bodies and things like that, it is a good idea not to take it all completely literally.…

— Frederick Lenz

“Perhaps I am the victim of some mysterious political, religious or financial machination—some vast and shadowy plot, whose ramifications are so obscure as to…

— Anna Kavan

“I am appalled by the potentialities of drama that are still contained in these feeble bodies.”

— Henry Miller

“Who wears masks?’ ‘Bank robbers?’ ‘No.’ ‘Really ugly people?’ ‘No.’ ‘Halloween? People wear masks at Halloween.’ ‘Yes! They do!’ He flung his arms wide…

— Neil Gaiman

The choking, sweltering, deadly, and killing rule of no rule; the consecration of cupidity and braying of folly, and dim stupidity and baseness, in…

— Thomas Carlyle

“Tragedy's language stresses that whatever is within us is obscure, many faceted, impossible to see. Performance gave this question of what is within a…

— Ruth Padel

“Her belly ruptures full of parasites, Her eyes sink back in her skull Her butchered wrists, dangle From the edge of the bathtub Her…

— Wrath James White

“Above all, one hideous figure grew as familiar as if it had been before the general gaze from the foundations of the world—the figure…

— Charles Dickens