Something about the circus stirs their souls, and they ache for it when it is absent.

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.

And finally, she saw him smile. It chased the shadows from his face and made him a boy again. It was a smile that a woman could grow to yearn for.

The day she realized they were never meant to be, is the day she now calls her - Birthday.

Sinfully acquired wealth may remain for ten years; in the eleventh year it disappears with even the original stock.

Here is what we have to offer you in its most elaborate form -- confusion guided by a clear sense of purpose.

[T]here's a difference between confident leadership and empty-headed delusion or cheerleading. And this is a difference that many CEOs miss.

Oh, I don't know. I might grow on you." She furrowed her pretty eyebrows. "Like a cancer?" "Like a favorite vice.

We know from our own history that democratic institutions take decades to mature, and we know from past conflicts that freedom is not free.

When you read the Koran, you give up. At least the Bible is very beautiful because Jews have an extraordinary literary talent.

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

Awakening your spiritual side is really what artists do. When you hit a groove, it's not you; it's the spirit world.