Old Cob tucked away his bowl of stew with the predatory efficency of a lifetime bachelor.

It's not prowess if you watch 5 hours of TV a day. It's just how you choose to spend your time.

If you open the door and realize things like the fact that Batman is occupying the same narrative space that Robin Hood used to fill 400 years ago, then you have the freedom to ignore the pointless "what is literature" discussion and just talk about stories.

Pride is always a better lever against the nobility than reason.

The truth is that the world is full of dragons, and none of us are as powerful or cool as we’d like to be. And that sucks. But when you’re confronted with that fact, you can either crawl into a hole and quit, or you can get out there, take off your shoes, and Bilbo it up.

But sometimes the best help a person can find is helping someone else.

I guess I'm destined to be loveless