We have much to be judged on when he comes, slums and battlefields and insane asylums, but these are the symptoms of our illness and the result of our failures in love.

We do not know what things look like. We know what things are like. It must be a very limiting thing,this seeing. -Aunt Beast

Picasso says that an artists paints not to ask a question but because he has found something and he wants to share—he cannot help it—what he has found.

With our human limitations we're not always able to understand the explanations.

If I have something I want to say that is too difficult for adults to swallow, then I will write it in a book for children.

This wasn't the first time that I'd come close to death, but it was the first time I'd been involved in this part of it, this strange, terrible saying goodbye to someone you've loved.

I think your mythology would call them fallen angels. War and hate are their business, and one of their chief weapons is un-Naming - making people not know who they are. If someone knows who he is, really knows, then he doesn't need to hate. That's why we still need Namers, because there are places throughout the universe like your planet Earth. When everyone is really and truly Named, then the Echthroi will be vanquished.