Misdirection is one of my strengths.

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.

When it all comes together, it is oddly beautiful and it makes sense.

Father son oily ghost amen.

Entrepreneur, make today count and but don't let the day count you.

It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.

There does not exist a category of science to which one can give the name applied science. There are science and the applications of science, bound together as the fruit of the tree which bears it.

Drama is promised to everyone no matter how humble you are.

Topiary has always seemed like a good occupation, comparable in some ways to writing short fiction.

If anybody wanted to photograph my life, they'd get bored in a day.

To get a woman, you have to be willing to risk losing her.

When you make something that everyone likes, it's very easy to say, "Well, I'll just repeat that." Because that was easy. I have a formula. But creatively, it's not very interesting.