And now, I'm a best selling author, a different sort of fairy tale that I still sometimes wonder when I'll wake up from.

This is not magic. This is the way the world is, only very few people take the time to stop and note it.

I am tired of trying to hold things together that cannot be held.

I have absurdly vivid dreams.

The finest of pleasures are always the unexpected ones.

Most maidens are perfectly capable of rescuing themselves in my experience, at least the ones worth something, in any case.

People see what they wish to see. And in most cases, what they are told that they see.

Only the ship is made of books, its sails thousands of overlapping pages, and the sea it floats upon is dark black ink.

Tarot is just stories on cards.

Even the air feels different on Halloween, autumn-crisp and bright.

Love is fickle and fleeting," Tsukiko continues. "It is rarely a solid foundation for decisions to be made upon, in any game.

Draw a circle, not a heart, around the one you love because a heart can break but a circle goes on forever.

Let go of toxic control, in order to regain healthy control.

One great mistake made by intelligent people is to refuse to believe that the world is as stupid as it is.

I believe nicotine plus caffeine equals protein.

A man is never more his single separate self than when he sets out on a journey.

Poetry is the sister of Sorrow. Every man that suffers and weeps is a poet; every tear is a verse, and every heart a poem.

I began to realize that some of the things Ornette Coleman had said about things being played three or fours ways, independently of each other, were true because Bach had also composed that way.

French women don't eat Wonder Bread.

You can't be focussed without really great communication

Do NOT say you “can’t”! You can say, “I don’t want to”. You can say, “I’m not willing to put forth the effort”. But DO NOT say you CAN’T!