"I'd love to think that people in the future would gather in theatres, at conventions, and in darkened rooms, and read it out to each other."
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"I was a voracious reader and I could never understand why comics were of any less merit or importance than any other way of writing. I think the thing that keeps me with comics is there's still so much to be done. There's still this huge unplowed field, this huge unexplored wilderness, and as long as I can keep doing new things and coming up with new things, I will."
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"I guess it's just another one of life's little mysteries." "I'm tired of mysteries." "Yeah? I think they add a kind of zest to the world. Like salt in a stew."
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"Why does she want me?" Coraline asked the cat. "Why does she want me to stay here with her?" "She wants something to love, I think," said the cat. "Something that isn't her. She might want something to eat as well. It's hard to tell with creatures like that."
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"We look about in puzzlement at our world, with a sense of unease and disquiet. We think of ourselves as scholars in arcane liturgies, single men trapped in worlds beyond our devising. The truth is far simpler: there are things in the darkness beneath us that wish us harm."
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"Sometimes I think that ideas float through the atmosphere like huge squishy pumpkins, waiting for heads to drop on."
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"I think the short story is a very underrated art form. We know that novels deserve respect."
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"I think...that I would rather recollect a life mis-spent on fragile things than spent avoiding moral debt."
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"What would aliens say when told earthlings shift clocks twice a year to fool themselves into thinking there's more sunlight?"
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"Right now people think God is dark energy and dark matter, the spirit. Go ahead and think that, but the day we can tell you exactly what it is - that it's gremlins in the vacuum of space or whatever - then what's your recourse at that point?"
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"The universe is almost 14 billion years old, and, wow! Life had no problem starting here on Earth! I think it would be inexcusably egocentric of us to suggest that we're alone in the universe."
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"Does the full moon affect people's behavior, you ask? Yup. It makes people think the full moon affects people's behavior."
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"Some morning while your eating breakfast and you need something new to think about, though, you might want to ponder the fact that you see your kids across the table not as they are but as they once were, about three nanoseconds ago."
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"As an educator, I try to get people to be fundamentally curious and to question ideas that they might have or that are shared by others. In that state of mind, they have earned a kind of inoculation against the fuzzy thinking of these weird ideas floating around out there. So rather than correct the weird ideas, I would rather them to know how to think in the first place. Then they can correct the weird idea themselves."
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"I think we are all the sum of that which has happened in our lives. And if you're successful, it would be wrong to think that you'd be more successful had something been easier. That's not a given."
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"I am not the most annoying person to bring to a movie 'cause I basically hold it in and write about it later or tweet about it. The most annoying people to bring to movies, I think we all agree, are those who read the book first."
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"I think of myself as a very lazy author."
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"Think I'll roll another number for the road"
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"We feel in one world, we think and name in another. Between the two we can set up a system of references, but we cannot fill in the gap."
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"I think that when you have kids, it's all about them."
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