I don't believe in evil, I believe only in horror. In nature there is no evil, only an abundance of horror: the plagues and the blights and the ants and the maggots. Karen Blixen
It was impossible to determine what he was saying, but I imagined he was telling all those present that they were nongs and maggots. I decided I quite liked watching the news with the sound off. Bill Bryson
My supreme game is to imagine myself dead, devoured by worms. I close my eyes and, with incredible details of absolute, scatological precision, I see myself being slowly eaten and digested by an infernal swarm of large greenish maggots gorging themselves on my flesh. Salvador Dalí
Critics? Don't talk to me of critics! You think some jackanapes journalist, his soul eaten away by the maggots of jealousy and failure, has anything worthwhile to say of art? I don't. Jonathan Raban
The one who talks about the future is a rascal. The present is the only thing that matters. To invoke one's posterity is to make a speech to maggots. [4]. Louis-Ferdinand Céline
He who brings firewood infected with maggots in his house should not complain when lizards start visiting him. African Proverb