They say that life's a game, & then they take the board away.

If the audience knew what they wanted then they wouldn't be the audience, they would be the artist.

Dan, I'm not a Republic serial villain. Do you seriously think I'd explain my master-stroke if there remained the slightest chance of you affecting its outcome? I did it thirty-five minutes ago.

There are people. There are stories. The people think they shape the stories, but the reverse if often closer to the truth. Stories shape the world. They exist independently of people, and in places quite devoid of man, there may yet be mythologies.

Here's the thing: If you're monitoring every single thing that goes on in a given culture, if you have all the information that is there to be had, then that is the equivalent of having none of it. How are you going to process that amount of information?

I am brother to dragons, and companion to owls. My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat.

Well, what do you expect? The Comedian is dead.