To cry was to release all sorts of ugly little pressures and tensions. Like waking out of a long, dark dream to a sun-filled day.

Above us, outlined against the brilliant sky, dragons crowded every available perching space on the Rim. And the sun made a gold of every one of them.

It is time to end a story that began in sorrow and ordeal and has ended in a deep and lasting happiness. May it be so for others.

Maybe I don’t really want to know what’s going on. Maybe I’d rather not know. Maybe I couldn’t bear to know.The Fall was a fall from innocence to knowledge.

Not the last time in Western history, the revolutionaries armed themselves with a new religion to steel themselves for greater outrageous.

If you don't learn anything but self discipline, then athletics is worthwhile.

I realized the exciting place was behind the camera with the producer, director and so on.

We hope to grow old and we dread old age; that is to say, we love life and we flee from death.

I just need some time away to remember why I stay.

Someone was looking at me, a disturbing sensation if you're dead.

The truth is that there is no journey. You are right now what you are attempting to be. You are right now where you are attempting to go.

The best work we can all do is create the highest vision possible for our lives and be led by that vision to the greatest good.

At the end of the '60s, I was trying to enter the world of comics.