The journey I'm taking is inside me. Just like blood travels down veins, what I'm seeing is my inner self and what seems threatening is just the echo of the fear in my heart.

A theory is a battlefield in your head.

Genius or fool, you don't live in the world alone. You can hide underground or you can build a wall around yourself, but somebody's going to come along and screw up the works.

My heroes don't have anything special. They have something to tell other people but they don't know how, so they talk to themselves.

No one could say how long that life would last. Whatever has form can disappear in an instant.

How much do you love me?' Midori asked. 'Enough to melt all the tigers in the world to butter,' I said.

I'm going to take you out of here ... I'm going to take you home, to the world where you belong, where cats with bent tails live, and there are little backyards, and alarm clocks ring in the morning.