"I watch with envious eyes and mind, the single-souled who dare not feel The wind that blows beyond the moon, who do not hear the fairy reel"
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"Time is fluid here', said the Demon."
"Freedom of speech gives you the right to stay silent."
"You don't get heaven or hell. Do you know the only reward you get for being Batman? You get to be Batman."
"If you don't know it's impossible it's easier to do."
"When things get tough... Make good art."
"There are stories you build and there are stories you construct; then there are the stories that you hack out of rock removing all the things that are not the story."
"Libraries really are the gates to the future."
"I think there should be an Occupy Gallifrey. Because 0.000001% of the people have 99.99999% of the Time."
"If you are protected from dark things then you have no protection of, knowledge of, or understanding of dark things when they show up."
"Use your blog to connect. Use it as you. Don’t ‘network’ or ‘promote.’ Just talk."
"You see with your eyes. This means you can be misled by charm, by outward appearance. By webs of glamour, by surface pretences. I do not see with my eyes. I see good and I see evil. Nothing else."
"When you start off, you have to deal with the problems of failure. You need to be thickskinned, to learn that not every project will survive."
"The truth is, it's not the idea, it's never the idea, it's always what you do with it."
"There aren't any good guys, and there aren't any bad guys. There's just us. People. Doing our best to get by."
"People kill what they fear. They burned, and drowned, and hanged those they saw as witches, the devil's servants: the wise women and the cunning men, the unfortunate, the lost and the strange"
"There are so many places we have not yet seen. So many people still to meet."
"I hope you'll make mistakes. If you're making mistakes, it means you're out there doing something."
"If the same object from two different times touches itself, one of two things will happen. Either the Universe will cease to exist. Or three remarkable dwarfs will dance through the streets with flowerpots on their heads."
"I wondered, as I wondered so often when I was that age, who I was, and what exactly was looking at the face in the mirror. If the face I was looking at wasn't me, and I knew it wasn't, because I would still be me whatever happened to my face, then what was me? And what was watching?"