When the present feels as endless as an impossibly long hallway between airport terminals, white and sterile and numb, we're particularly receptive to signs.

If you are lucky, home is not only a place that you leave, but also a place where you someday arrive.

Fate has given you a chance of stepping out of your comfort zone. Take the trip. (Aunt Eve talking to Febronia)

Took over my city and I never asked permission to.

I wish you did return my regard," he said. "More than I have ever wished anything in my life! Perhaps you may yet learn to do so: I should warn you that I don't easily despair!

I think of many of my photographs as being obviously symbolic but not symbolically obvious. There isn't any specific correlation between the symbols in this image and any content that I have in mind.

The United States Congress, like a lot of rich people, lives in two houses.

Touch her, and I'll freeze your testicles off and put them in a jar. Understand?

Writing was always an aspiration, but I'd kept it a secret even from myself.

A bruxis. That was the one wish more powerful than a gavriel, and its trade value was singular: The only way to purchase one was with one’s own teeth. All of them, self-extracted.

Loneliness is random; solitude is ritual.

The one common denominator of all successful people is their hunger to push through their fears.