You don't always talk with your mouth. Sometimes what you say with your mouth hardly matters at all. You have to signify

In the stutter-flashes of light, the clouds look like huge transparent brains filled with bad thoughts.

Most people are optimists, although they may claim they are not. People who call themselves realists are often the biggest optimists of all.

And in the gunslinger's mind, those words echoed: You dare not.

The books are always there, just the way you wrote them. The plays often don`t turn out the way you wanted them to because in the theater, you`re always involved with collaborators and they don`t always see the work the way you do.

If you're going into a very dark place, then you should take a bright light, and shine it on everything. If you don't want to see, why in God's name would you dare the dark at all?

there are lots of would-be censors out there, and although they may have different agendas, they all want basically the same thing: for you to see the world they see...or to at least shut up about what you do see that's different. they are agents of the status quo. not necessarily bad guys, but dangerous guys if you happen to believe in intellectual freedom.