Shadows fell on them like predators as the light went out.

Art is something you choose to make... it's a bringing together of... of everything around you into something that makes you more human, more khepri, whatever. More of a person.

A sense of wrongness, of fraught unease, as if long nails scraped the surface of the moon, raising the hackles of the soul.

The summer stretched out the daylight as if on a rack. Each moment was drawn out until its anatomy collapsed. Time broke down. The day progressed in an endless sequence of dead moments.

She was intelligent enough to realize that her excitement was childish, but not mature enough to care.

You know your vote doesn't count, but you go through the motions, because it's been drummed into your head that you might be the one person who makes a difference.

A wise parent humors the desire for independent action so as to become the friend and advisor when his absolute rule shall cease.

I'm going to keep on dealing with the supernatural in a lot of ways.

I grew up Irish Catholic with a bunch of kids at Catholic school.

Being a father is an everyday challenge. It goes on and on.

Beauty is only skin deep; ugliness goes all the way through.

No genuine observer can decide otherwise than that the homes of a nation are the bulwarks of personal and national safety and thrift.

And he had a nice home in Ohio with wife, daughter, Christmas tree, two cars, garage, lawn, lawnmower, but he couldn't enjoy any of it because he really wasn't free. It was sadly true.

I'm Kakashi Hatake. Things I like and things I hate… I don't feel like telling you that. My dreams for the future… never really thought about it. As for my hobbies… I have lots of hobbies.

I cook anything but chitlins.