It's not about saving humanity. It never has been." Mantrella, THE WAKING GOD TRILOGY

Evil was coming. I wondered whose face it would be wearing.

He stared at his feet. “I’m still very ignorant, ” he said, “but at least I’m ignorant about really important things.

I could not love thee dear so much Loved I not honor more.

Art is the close scrutiny of reality and therefore I put on the stage only those things that I know happen in our society.

Nothing will make us so charitable and tender to the faults of others, as, by self-examination, thoroughly to know our own.

... that order generated without design can far outstrip plans men consciously contrive

I used to get made fun of for being either too provocative or too eccentric, so I started to tone it down. I didn't fit in, and I felt like a freak.

I treasure a core value of humanity and that guides people why they act the way they do. I will use this to show other people how they can understand each other… as one, we can help society.

I love having a big family. I think it's easier, oddly, in some ways, having three children as opposed to one.

I’m not raising my kids to survive the world. I’m raising them to change it.