Life is fury. Fury - sexual, Oedipal, political, magical, brutal - drives us to our finest heights and coarsest depths. This is what we are, what we civilize ourselves to disguise - the terrifying human animal in us, the exalted, transcendent, self-destructive, untrammeled lord of creation. We raise each other to the heights of joy. We tear each other limb from bloody limb.
- Salman Rushdie, Fury
