Is there any person in the world who does not dream? Who does not contain within them worlds unimagined?

Start telling the stories that only you can tell.

Well," he said, "f’r example, if they ask where you’ve come from, you could say ‘Behind me,’and if they asked where you’re going, you’d say ‘In front of me.

I watch my heart disappearing into her rosebud mouth. My Valentine's jest somehow seems less funny.

Rules and responsibilities: these are the ties that bind us. We do what we do, because of who we are. If we did otherwise, we would not be ourselves. I will do what I have to do. And I will do what I must.

A god's relationship to the world, even a world in which he was walking, was about as emotionally connected as that of a computer gamer playing with knowledge of the overall shape of the game and armed with a complete set of cheat codes.

Tools, of course, can be the subtlest of traps.