You don't get heaven or hell. Do you know the only reward you get for being Batman? You get to be Batman.

As we age, we become our parents; live long enough and we see faces repeat in time.

Oh, monsters are scared. That's why they're monsters.

That which is dreamed can never be lost, can never be undreamed.

I've known ambitious people with no aptitude for the thing they did. Most of whom, rather terrifyingly, tended to succeed.

Reading is important. Books are important. Librarians are important. (Also, libraries are not child-care facilities, but sometimes feral children raise themselves among the stacks.)

'Doctor Who' was the first mythology that I learned, before ever I ran into Greek or Roman or Egyptian mythologies.