Being brave doesn't mean you aren't scared. Being brave means you are scared, really scared, badly scared, and you do the right thing anyway.

She found herself to be quite worried that something would jump out at her, so she began to whistle. She thought it might make it harder for things to jump out at her, if she was whistling.

I've been inspired by dreams - I've even stolen scenes or images or characters from them.

The current total of countries in the world with First Amendments is one. You have guaranteed freedom of speech. Other countries don't have that.

This is a work of fiction. Still, given an infinite number of possible worlds, it must be true on one of them. And if a story set in an infinite number of possible worlds is true in one of them, then it must be true in all of them. So maybe, it's not as fictional as we think.

Hey, that's life, flick it off if you can't take a joke.

People take on the shapes of the songs and the stories that surround them, especially if they don't have their own song.