It is likely to make us think we are not caged. We cannot feel the bars unless we push against them.

Secrets have power, and that power diminishes when they are shared, so they are best kept and kept well. Sharing secrets, real secrets, important ones, with even one other person, will change them.

I think I get some of my love of adult books that can be fun from Douglas Adams.

I mean only that I hope they find darkness or paradise without fear of it, if they can.

The boy spends most of his time reading. And writing, of course. He copies out sections of books, writes out words and symbols he does not understand at first but that become intimately familiar beneath his ink-stained fingers, formed again and again in increasingly steady lines.

You prefer not to see the gears of the clock, as to better tell time.

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