A garland of quotations LXXX

(Perhaps this is cheating, but I thought, to celebrate last week’s release of my latest and potentially last book, I would weave a garland of quotations plucked from that very volume (which is, let me make clear, not exclusively made up of quotations, but also not, you know, devoid of quotation). The book is funny and weird and full of myths and legends and technically for kids but I don’t know how they let me put some of this stuff in. Anyway, thus we see art degraded by commerce, and next week...