We are such materialists that all our metaphors are going to be material.

Art's development should be dialectical and not metaphysical.

Algebra is the metaphysics of arithmetic.

Science is all metaphor.

I love tap!

Metaphysics is a science.

No one can replace Amanda Tapping.

Vampires are total sexual metaphors; there's just no way around that.

The stopwatch doesn't lie. The tape measure doesn't lie.

Cities are obvious metaphors for life. We call roads 'arteries' and so forth.

Scientists have to have a metaphor. All scientists start with imagination.

Being a superhero is a metaphor for a job that is overwhelming.

I took tap classes growing up.

The thing about metaphors is that, if you give them away, you give away the mystery.

We can get rid of red tape.

I'm not good at audition tapes.

I was in the pilot for Spinal Tap before it was a movie.

Words are not pebbles in alien juxtaposition.

The thing about metaphors is that, if you give them away, you give away the mystery.

As a songwriter, metaphor is instinctual.