I didn't know your identity, but I had an impression of who my opponent was, being surrounded by things you made.

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.

Faced with so much ignorance and prejudice currently I can only comment that Facebook is a breeding ground for the worst fruits of our coarse personality.

The superfluous is very necessary.

When you fly high people will throw stones at you. Don't look down. Just fly higher so the stones won't reach you

I don't want to hide. If I get arrested, I get arrested.

Anonymity lets me concentrate exclusively on writing.

All good novelists have bad memories.

Sugar is responsible for a lot of deaths. Arguably more than crack cocaine.

If you don't set your writing - teaching - at a level that makes them stretch, they are never going to develop their intellectual muscle.

We have enough people who tell it like it is - now we could use a few who tell it like it can be.

He asked himself those some questions too many times and felt the fears again that kept him where he was