Sometimes I write what I can't paint, and I paint what I can't write. I use a different part of the brain.

It is difficult to see a situation for what it is when you are in the midst of it,” Tsukiko says. “It is too familiar. Too comfortable.

Because I do not wish to know,” he says. “I prefer to remain unenlightened, to better appreciate the dark.

You're in the right place at the right time, and you care enough to do what needs to be done. Sometimes that's enough.

People are naive about such things, and they would rather write them off as evil than attempt to understand them. An unfortunate truth, but a truth nonetheless.

I am a fan of magic and fantasy, particularly when it's grounded in reality.

This is, in part, why there is less magic in the world today. Magic is secret and secrets are magic, after all, and years upon years of teaching and sharing magic and worse. Writing it down in fancy books that get all dusty with age has lessened it, removed its power bit by bit.