Every character sees the world through a framework of education and experience that they're proud experts about. To write a character, find out what they know best, and THEN you'll know how they'll describe a "hot day." Or a "pretty girl."

Hysteria is impossible without an audience. Panicking by yourself is the same as laughing alone in an empty room. You feel really silly.

Every stage of life has its own form of power, and we're always sort of terrified as to whether we can make the jump to the next form of power.

A shadow of a reflection of an image of an illusion.

This is the worst problem with living history museums. They always leave the best parts out. Like typhus. And opium. And scarlet letters. Shunning. Witch-burning.

People take conventional ways that other people have always decorated their cars, and use them as ways of giving other people permission to approach them.

Maybe it's our sins that give God consolation when he finally has to give us cancer.