We save our lives in such unlikely ways.

In order for stories to work - for kids and for adults - they should scare. And you should triumph. There's no point in triumphing over evil if the evil isn't scary.

He was alone in the darkness once more, but the darkness became brighter and brighter until it was burning like the sun.

And sometimes when you fall... you fly...

It does not matter where you come from, if you walk toward the truth you will reach it, whatever path you take.

When things get tough, this is what you should do: Make good art. I'm serious. Husband runs off with a politician -- make good art. Leg crushed and then eaten by a mutated boa constrictor -- make good art. IRS on your trail -- make good art. Cat exploded -- make good art. Someone on the Internet thinks what you're doing is stupid or evil or it's all been done before -- make good art.

It doesn't matter that you didn't believe in us," said Mr. Ibis. "We believed in you.