If you read enough Lionel Fanthorpe, your brain starts to turn to jelly and just dribbles out of your ears.

The best way to show people true things is from a direction that they had not imagined the truth coming.

I suppose the point you grow up is the point you let the dreams go.

Remember: that giants sleep too soundly; that witches are often betrayed by their appetites; dragons have one soft spot, somewhere, always; hearts can be well-hidden, and you can betray them with your tongue. (from "Instructions")

I was a stranger and you took me in. -Joji G. Shoji, d. 1921

I've learned over the years that everything is more or less the same amount of work, so you may as well set your sights high and try and do something really cool.

The strangest part of being so well known is definitely getting a New Yorker profile. It's a wonderful, strange process, like seeing yourself through a distorting mirror.