The circus arrives without warning. No announcements precede it. It is simply there, when yesterday it was not.

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.

I guess that’s the beauty of books. When they finish they don’t really finish.

Ambition is the bridge between reality and living a dream.

It's raining outside. How did you get here? And how did you get to be twenty-eight?

To love money is to know and love the fact that money is the creation of the best power within you, and your passkey to trade your effort for the effort of the best among men.

I have this terrific make-up man. But he's expensive. I have to bring him in from Lourdes.

There are surprising turning points; there is the straw that breaks the camel's back, and you never know if your action could be the straw.

If you think you are a vile slime, that means that you aspire to something higher...It's because you have a sense of perfection, and you obviously want that, that you find something wrong.

Hollywood is ten million dollars worth of intricate and high ingenious machinery functioning elaborately to put skin on baloney.

I have a great management team and great agents that assist me, and I take roles in feature films that I hope will show my other talents other than just comedy.

If you're an actor, always be true to your character. If you are not an actor, have character and always be true to yourself.