Have you ever thought about it, about simply leaving? Really, truly thought about it with the intent to follow through and not as a dream or a passing fancy?

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.

Your price makes a statement about your credibility. The more you charge, the more people respect you!

Everything is false, everything is possible, everything is doubtful.

What we make is more important than what we are particularly if making is our profession.

My greatest ambition is to have a career without becoming a career woman.

To despise our own species is the price we must often pay for knowledge of it.

[Russians] want to bring us down to make them feel better about the failure of the Soviet Union. I don't mean bring us down as in collapse, but bring us down a notch in a big way.

It is worthwhile to live and fight courageously for sacred ideals.

In a world full of audio visual marvels, may words matter to you and be full of magic.

Obama still has work to do with the vision thing. Convincing voters that he has a credible, practical plan to turn the nation around is a process, not a speech.

Sir, I have quarrelled with my wife; and a man who has quarrelled with his wife is absolved from all duty to his country.