“The cruelest thing you can do to an artist is tell them their work is flawless when it isn't”

“Drelmere and sons, fine outfitters for the discerning magician! he was shouting, his voice barely carrying over the hubbub. Robes! Pointy hats! Beard grooming supplies! Yes, you sir, how can OH GOD...”

“There's something terribly weird about the standard fantasy setting--not least of which the fact the phrase "standard fantasy setting" can be uttered without irony.”

“So, Americans, then. Self-appointed vigilante defenders of the world, kind of like Superman, if Superman was retarded and only fought crime when he felt like it.”

“My non American viewers. Who understand that the world does not consist solely of a single nation sailing across an infinite sea of migrant workers. Will no doubt have heard that the waters surroun...”

“it's difficult to root for America when the villains of the story live in a ditch and are armed with jagged rocks. At some point in recent years they looked up from their international heroism to r...”

“The socioeconomic impact of such a minor outburst is due to our technological development (air travel)a century ago, such an eruption would have passed unnoticed. Technological development makes us...”

“The fact that a cloud from a minor volcanic eruption in Icelanda small disturbance in the complex mechanism of life on the Earthcan bring to a standstill the aerial traffic over an entire continent...”

“For the hundreds of thousands of Californians in gay and lesbian households who are managing their day-to-day lives, this decision affirms the full legal protections and safeguards I believe everyo...”

“I'm choosing happiness over suffering, I know I am. I'm making space for the unknown future to fill up my life with yet-to-come surprises.”

“Future warns us through current symptoms in nature.”

“Human relationships always help us to carry on because they always presuppose further developments, a future - and also because we live as if our only task was precisely to have relationships with ...”

“We are human only in contact, and conviviality, with what is not human.”

“The problem is this: nature has assembled all these species on this planet. The human species is no more important than any other species on this planet. For some reason, man accorded himself a sup...”

“More than the disappearing trees and roses, its the human tendency to suppress the Natural Voice of the Natures Man which is sorrowful.”