There are things that are more important than the news and what’s happening today. There are these archetypes which are part of the human imagination since humans were presumably imaginative. And I think that’s what [people] find touching, these eternal ideas. It’s one of the things that makes fantasy something that tends to stand the test of time because we’re reading, 50 years later, The Lord of the Rings.

To dream in isolation can be properly splendid to be sure; but to dream in company seems to me infinitely preferable.

All things are true. God's an Astronaut. Oz is Over the Rainbow, and Midian is where the monsters live." - Peloquin

Nothing happens carelessly. We’re not brought into the world without reason, even though we may never understand the reason. An infant that lives an hour, that dies before it can lay eyes on those who made it, even that soul did not live without purpose: this is my sudden certainty.

One man's pornography is another man's theology.

I'm a great dog fanatic. My own dog died a little while ago and I take it very personally when things die-it's a major offence.

Leavening the flat bread of what we know, with the yeast of what we dream may come to pass.