Whatever the explanation, it's perfectly obvious that our educational system has nothing to do with education: it's a babysitting service designed to replicate the worst qualities of the parents.

It is wrong to ask for more than you give freely. In this way, we come to resemble what we hate.

I respect my limitations, but I don't use them as an excuse.

Despair and bitterness are not the only songs in the world

This you have to understand. There's only one way to hurt a man who's lost everything. Give him back something broken.

I may not yet be as old as dirt, but dirt and I are starting to have an awful lot in common.

It is the responsibility of the living to make meaningful the sacrifices of the dead.

In accepting the Gift you Honor the Giver

"And you require no answers", Foamfollower was laughing in his gladness, "You are sufficient to every question".

We need metaphors of magic and monsters in order to understand the human condition.

Any belief that puts itself beyond doubt nurtures its own collapse.

Do not fear, for I am with you - Isaiah 41:10

My family was absolutely supportive. I did have a fear of cold reads because of my dyslexia, but my family's support and reading classes really helped me overcome my fear!

I am not who I was, but I know who I am.

I'm recording an album. It's sort of techno mixed with garbage - you, know, intense in-your-face music.

You know I have duties──we both have duties──before which feeling must be sacrificed.

The phenomenon of nature is more splendid than the daily events of nature, certainly, so then the twentieth century is splendid.

Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.

When I was a kid, the bigger boys would pick on me. So I got an idea that I would make alliances with older boys, like just one or two, who would be my protectors.

I like the dueling club scene, where Daniel and I fight with our wands. I thought it was a brilliant scene to shoot. I think the end product looked really good.

No wreaths please - especially no hothouse flowers. Some common memento is better, something he prized and is known by: his old clothes - a few books perhaps.