When left to its own devices it tends to make me look as if I’ve been set afire.

Science is just magic with better PR.

Some tropes are universal. Boy meets girl. Betrayal and revenge. The search to discover a hidden truth.... A mother's love isn't cliché, it's universal. These things are archetypes. They're the building blocks of myth and legend. They are a big part about what it means to be human.

85% of modern music doesn't have a damn thing to do with music. It has to do with looking good. Name me one woman on the top ten right now who isn't absolutely smoking hot. You think that's a coincidence?

I can't count the men who have tried to seduce me away from my virtue by teaching me how to defend it.

But how awful would that be? How terrible to live surrounded by the stark, sharp, hollowness of things that simply were enough?

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