You have to believe. Otherwise, it will never happen.

Walk any path in Destiny's garden, and you will be forced to choose, not once but many times.

I'm bored," she said. "Learn how to tap-dance," he suggested, without turning around.

Sometimes big things happen, and they echo. Those echoes crash across worlds. They are the ripples in the fabric of things. Often they manifest as storms. Reality is a fragile thing, after all.

Stories you read when you're the right age never quite leave you. You may forget who wrote them or what the story was called. Sometimes you'll forget precisely what happened, but if a story touches you it will stay with you, haunting the places in your mind that you rarely ever visit.

One of the great things about humor is, you can slip things past people with humor, you can use it as a sweetener. So you can actually tell them things, give them messages, get terribly, terribly serious and terribly, terribly dark, and because there are jokes in there, they'll go along with you, and they'll travel a lot further along with you than they would otherwise.

I think...that I would rather recollect a life mis-spent on fragile things than spent avoiding moral debt.