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

When angels go bad they are worse than anyone else. Remember Lucifer used to be an angel.

I love doing the readings. The readings are the fun bits... The readings are probably the things that actually keep me going on these. If I couldn't do the readings, I wouldn't do the [signing] tours. I get to stand up there and read to a bunch of adults who in many cases nobody's read to in years, since they were about five. They just squat on the floor. That's enormously enjoyable.

They all do the same things. They may think their sins are original, but for the most part they are petty and repetitive.

What do I do now?” “I don’t know. Fade away, perhaps. Or find another role.

It was a dream, and in dreams you have no choices: either there are no decisions to be made, or they were made for you long before ever the dream began.

There's never been a true war that wasn't fought between two sets of people who were certain they were in the right. The really dangerous people believe they are doing whatever they are doing solely and only because it is without question the right thing to do. And that is what makes them dangerous.