If you can kill it, or it can kill you, it's real.

She moved like a poem and smiled like a sphinx.

Hope can be a powerful force. Maybe there's no actual magic in it, but when you know what you hope for most and hold it like a light within you, you can make things happen, almost like magic.

I know it's not easy for you, living this life, but try to remember, always try to remember, you're not the only one with troubles.

Creamy and leggy, with long azure hair and the eyes of a silent-movie star, she moved like a poem and smiled like a sphinx.

...something was starting to take shape, out of magic and will. Smoke and bone.

Did you know that mako shark fetuses eat each other in the womb?... Its true. Only cannibal fetuses survive to be born. Can you imagine if people were like that?

And just so you know, the invaders are always the bad guys. Always.

And they were quiet but their blood and nerves and butterflies were not—they were rampantly alive, rushing and thrumming in a wild and perfect melody, matched note for note.

Because hope comes from in you, and wishes are just magic.

My tiny scary friend is coming

Stories are there to entertain, preserve history, or serve a societal purpose of some kind.

You cannot stop the ocean's current, but you can swim.

One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach. One can collect only a few, and they are more beautiful if they are few.

The grand thing is to be able to reason backwards.

My name is on the thing, but the reality of it is, when I get up there on stage, I'm part of a band. I'm part of a unit. It's like a basketball team.

Religious belief itself is an adaptation that has evolved because we're hard-wired to form tribalistic religions.

Minneapolis has two seasons: Road Removal and Snow Repair.

We are concerned in public affairs, but immersed in our private ones.

We have no lasting friends, no lasting enemies, only lasting interests.