Everything I have done, every change I have made to that circus, every impossible feat and astounding sight, I have done for her.

This is not magic. This is the way the world is, only very few people take the time to stop and note it.

I am tired of trying to hold things together that cannot be held.

I have absurdly vivid dreams.

The finest of pleasures are always the unexpected ones.

Most maidens are perfectly capable of rescuing themselves in my experience, at least the ones worth something, in any case.

People see what they wish to see. And in most cases, what they are told that they see.

Only the ship is made of books, its sails thousands of overlapping pages, and the sea it floats upon is dark black ink.

Tarot is just stories on cards.

Even the air feels different on Halloween, autumn-crisp and bright.

Love is fickle and fleeting," Tsukiko continues. "It is rarely a solid foundation for decisions to be made upon, in any game.

Golf is my profession Show business is just to pay the green fees.

My grandmother was an unparalleled storyteller who gave me a preview of how life might turn out, and also fortified my empathy.

Verily, I do not want to be like the ropemakers: They drag out their threads and always walk backwards.

I don't deliberately go into comedy or go into indies, but I do deliberately try to keep changing tact, because I think that is the key to longevity in a career.

That which, perhaps, hears more nonsense than anything in the world, is a picture in a museum.

People expect more and more every time.

White people are very good at acting like they're not racist. They deserve an Academy Award for that.

There is a pride, a self-love, in human minds that will seldom be kept so low as to make men and women humbler than they ought to be.

I work until beer o'clock.

Great careers are getting easier to find and audition for, but harder to keep.