Part of the appeal of the fantastic is taking ridiculous ideas very seriously and pretending they're not absurd.

Word spread because word will spread. Stories and secrets fight, stories win, shed new secrets, which new stories fight, and on.

Scars are not injuries, Tanner Sack. A scar is a healing. After injury, a scar is what makes you whole.

Art is something you choose to make... it's a bringing together of... of everything around you into something that makes you more human, more khepri, whatever. More of a person.

A trap is only a trap if you don't know about it. If you know about it, it's a challenge.

The dead are way more organized than the living.

Books are always obviously having conversations with other books, and some times they're amiable and sometimes not.

If you're brave enough to try, you might be able to catch a train from UnLondon to Parisn't, or No York, or Helsunki, or Lost Angeles, or Sans Francisco, or Hong Gone, or Romeless.

It felt like being a child again, though it was not. Being a child is like nothing. It's only being. Later, when we think about it, we make it into youth.

A sense of wrongness, of fraught unease, as if long nails scraped the surface of the moon, raising the hackles of the soul.

We should have just killed him, that's a lesson, don't get creative with revenge

She didn't realize she was in a prison until she collided with the bars.

silence can be words but words cannot be silence

To give to others is but sowing seed for ourselves.

Reality TV, although I'm a part of it, I think reality TV is a terrible thing.

Man's natural and inevitable urge to deny mortality and achieve a heroic self-image are the root causes of human evil.

I know the exploding cost of health care is at the root of our long-term fiscal challenges.

Haste in every business brings failures.

In the state of Michigan, where I served in the state Legislature, there was a lot of shuffling of money between one year and the other to balance the budget.

Studying the past may suggest new ways of going wrong.

I feel responsible to make something original as a Japanese artist. There are lots of singers and guitarists, but I feel that on stage its meaningless to copy something someone has done before.