Freedom of speech gives you the right to stay silent.

You musn’t be afraid of the dark.’ ‘I’m not,’ said Shadow. ‘I’m afraid of the people in the dark.

Chantal is having a relationship with a sentence. Just one of those things. A chance meeting that grew into something important for the both of them.

We often confuse what we wish for with what is.

When you start off, you have to deal with the problems of failure. You need to be thickskinned, to learn that not every project will survive.

He stared up at the stars, and it seemed to him then that they were dancers, stately and graceful, performing a dance almost infinite in its complexity. He imagined he could see the very faces of the stars; pale, they were, and smiling gently, as if they had spent so much time above the world, watching the scrambling and the joy and the pain of the people below them, that they could not help being amused every time another little human believed itself the center of its world, as each of us does.

When things go wrong, this is what you should do. Make good art.