Decius on Wikipedia, in 2003:

I've found myself using this more and more recently.

Matthew Ingram:

Most people will never edit a Wikipedia page.

Jimmy Wales:

A lot of people are literally afraid.

Monster Supply Store:

The shop was established in 1818, and ever since then has served the daily needs of London's extensive monster community. Step inside, and you'll find a whole range of essential products for monsters. You can pick from a whole range of Tinned Fears, a selection of Human Preserves, and a variety of other really rather fine goods.

Chuck Klosterman:

What if contemporary people are less interested in seeing depictions of their unconscious fears and more attracted to allegories of how their day-to-day existence feels?

Chuck Klosterman:

It's a present-day problem: There's just no escaping the larger, omnipresent puzzle of "reality." Even when people read fiction, they want to know what's real. But this, it seems, is not Franzen's concern. He disintegrates the issue with one sentence.

"Here's the thing about inauthentic people," he says on the train, speaking in the abstract. "Inauthentic people are obsessed with authenticity."

Nick Smyth:

One of the pesky things about real life is that you cannot really "opt out" of the picture, choosing to view it from the sidelines passively. For this is itself a choice, a decision with character and consequence. In real life, there are no audiences, only actors.