The truest tales require time and familiarity to become what they are.

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.

I'm not fighting for myself anymore.... It makes a difference.

And that's the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too.

You better take advantage of the good cigars. You don't get much else in that job.

Lewis [Hamilton] is a hero in the UK. The British love Formula One. Sebastian (Vettel) is also not doing much for F1. People hardly recognize him on the street.

The better we get at getting better, the faster we will get better.

Reading. That was the sport I was good at.

I had a Southern accent but I had broken it so hard.

I like the process of pencil and paper as opposed to a machine. I think the writing is better when it's done in handwriting.

And I think it is the genius of actors to be able to escape whatever people are expecting of them. Otherwise you become like a factory worker.

Like a piece of ice on a hot stove the poem must ride on its own melting.