Most quines are notoriously difficult (and fiendish) to write. Perl can cheat, though. :)

Coordinate term: zygomaticus minor

Their long, apparently improvised streams of digitalia are at times grating and self-indulgent, but at its best their work is densely layered with arresting details and packed with abrupt and exciting shifts in texture and rhythm.

To be buggered sore like a hobo's whore (Attributed to Harry Mclintock's 1920s era Big Rock Candy Mountain)