Because there are mysteries. Because there are things that people are forbidden to speak about. Because there are things they do not remember.

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

I think I’ll dismember the world and then I’ll dance in the wreckage.

Be hole, be dust, be dream, be wind/Be night, be dark, be wish, be mind,/Now slip, now slide, now move unseen,/Above, beneath, betwixt, between.

Monsters come in all shapes and sizes, Some of them are things people are scared of. Some of them are things that look like things people used to be scared of a long time ago. Sometimes monsters are things people should be scared of, but they aren't.

Nobody's American," said Wednesday. "Not originally. That's my point.

"Death's a capricious thing, innit?" "Yes. Yes, she is."