“I've been writing about my boyhood, when I was a little kid back on my grandfather's farm where we didn't know about black widow spiders or all that stuff. But writing about that is so easy.” KnowsWritingLittlesKidsEasyStuffBlackFarmsGrandfatherLittle KidSpidersMy GrandfatherWidowsBoyhoodBlack Widow Author:Kary Mullis
“I'm wearing black leggings and a loose top festooned with a Menger sponge of empty pockets stitched out of smaller pockets and smaller still, almost down to the limits of visibility woven in freefall by hordes of tiny otaku spiders, I'm told, their genes programmed by an obsessive-compulsive sartorial topologist.” StillsBlackLimitsEmptyTinyPocketsGenesSpidersWovenObsessiveSpongesHordeVisibilityLeggingsObsessive CompulsiveOtakuWearing BlackEmpty Pockets Book:Glasshouse Source: Glasshouse
“We belong to an age where apocalypse is our daily bread, coffee's black, and we know we're part of the abyss. Red Spider White Web is right on target in conveying that understanding. It splinters in the mind... the underworld of the century's imaginings.” KnowsMindAgeUnderstandingBlackWhiteCenturyRedCoffeeBreadTargetApocalypseAbyssSpidersUnderworldDaily BreadConveyingSplintersOur Daily Bread Author:Brian Aldiss
“Honest to God, all my life I have had such a fear of spiders. In fact, I use to have a reoccurring dream about one. Very clearly, it was black with a red head. It would sit up in the corner of the bedroom and when it started getting closer, I would wake up in a panic.” FactsUseDreamBlackHonestRedWake UpCornersPanicBedroomSpiders Author:Tippi Hedren
“A lot of people who work with wildlife work with wildlife to satisfy their own egos. And I don't really agree with that. What I do is get in nice and close to the animal to make the animal look good. My aim in this world is to make that brown snake, that crocodile, that koala, that red-backed spider, that black widow, look good. That's my job. I have absolutely no problem with my ego or my staff's ego.” PeopleWorldLooksProblemJobsBlackAnimalNiceThis WorldEgoRedAimAgreeBrownStaffSnakesNo ProblemSpidersWildlifeWidowsCrocodilesBlack WidowKoalas Author:Steve Irwin