It has occurred to me that the superhero really only originates in America. That seems to be the only country that has produced this phenomenon.

Please, don't go. It's lonely. There's a hole in my head as big as the world and it's so very lonely.

Now everything is wonderful and hazardous and nothing's hypothetical.

I think that storytelling and creation are very close to what the center of what magic is about. I think not just for me, but for most of the cultures that have had a concept of magic, then the manipulation of language, and words, and thus of stories and fictions, has been very close to the center of it all.

The main thing that I learned about conspiracy theory, is that conspiracy theorists believe in a conspiracy because that is more comforting. The truth of the world is that it is actually chaotic. The truth is that it is not The Iluminati, or The Jewish Banking Conspiracy, or the Gray Alien Theory. The truth is far more frightening - Nobody is in control. The world is rudderless.

Existence is random. Has no pattern save what we imagine after staring at it for too long. No meaning save what we choose to impose.

Truth is a well-known pathological liar. It invariably turns out to be Fiction wearing a fancy frock. Self-proclaimed Fiction, on the other hand, is entirely honest. You can tell this, because it comes right out and says, "I'm a Liar," right there on the dust jacket.