It is a true saying, that what you fear you find.

What the myths say, is that you have to be the hero of your own life. You're the one who has to take charge of who you are, you're the one who has to take control. And also, you're the one who can bring something to the community.

The impulse to worship is impossible to eradicate. Even the most prosaic have to worship something.

The key to happiness, she said, is tolerance of those who do not do as you do.' `What if those who do not do as you do are gunning you down?' I said.... Alaska frowned. `Guns are intolerant. Guns are a failure of communication.

It's not the one thing nor the other that leads to madness, but the space in between.

I seem to have run in a great circle, and met myself again on the starting line.

There are only three possible endings -aren't there? - to any story: revenge, tragedy or forgiveness. That's it. All stories end like that.