“The world always seems brighter when you've just made something that wasn't there before.”
“I've never known anyone who was what he or she seemed; or at least, was only what he or she seemed. People carry worlds within them.”
“Life is always going to be stranger than fiction, because fiction has to be convincing, and life doesn't.”
“You can take for granted that people know more or less what a street, a shop, a beach, a sky, an oak tree look like. Tell them what makes this one different.”
“I believe that stories are incredibly important, possibly in ways we don't understand, in allowing us to make sense of our lives, in allowing us to escape our lives, in giving us empathy and in creating the world that we live in.”
“It is a fool's prerogative to utter truths that no one else will speak.”
“The great thing about Batman and Superman, in truth, is that they are literally transcendent. They are better than most of the stories they are in.”
“I've been blogging since February of 2001. When I started blogging, it was a dinosaur blog. It was me and a handful of tyrannosaurs. We'd be writing blog entries like, 'The tyrannosaurus is getting grumpy.'”
“As a teenager I wrote to R.A. Lafferty. And he responded, too, with letters that were like R.A. Lafferty short stories, filled with elliptical answers to straight questions and simple answers to complicated ones.”
“And there never was an apple, in Adam's opinion, that wasn't worth the trouble you got into for eating it.”