I know, better than anyone else, that there are no heroes coming to save us. There are no good Epics. None of them protect us. Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Never throw the first punch. If you have to throw the second, try to make sure they don't get up for a third.

I grunted, hauling the rope hand over hand. A plaintive squeak came from the pulley system with each draw, as if I had strapped some unfortunate mouse to a torture device and was twisting with glee.

Where there are villains, there will be heroes. Just wait. They will come.

Ear demons are totally real, " Cody said. "They're what make microphones like these ones work. They're also what tell you to eat the last slice of pie when you know Tia wanted it.

If children instead of adults would have contolled the world, then the world would have become a better place.

I've swallowed fish-eyes wholelike an endoscope.I once ate a trout cooked inside a dolphin. Felt like a shark eating another shark, inside the cold-blooded womb of yet another shark.

Whether the bear beats the wolf or the wolf beats the bear, the rabbit always loses.

Though everyone has an equal right to speak, not all have earned an equal right to be taken seriously.

You don't need people’s opinion on a fact. You might as well have a poll asking: ‘Which number is bigger, 15 or 5?’ or ‘Do owls exist?’ or ‘Are there hats?'

I love the Latin neighborhoods in Los Angeles. It's like traveling all over Latin America without ever leaving LA.

I think that of most leaders in religion as power brokers. They give orders, in a sense, to an audience every week, and that's where the definition of God starts.

Few people want the pleasures they are free to take.

One thing that founders always underestimate is how hard it is to recruit.

Poet and sculptor, do the work, / Nor let the modish painter shirk