“When I show you how you and I Have more hunger than we know What to do with, I am telling you Goodbye before you know it.” - Mookie Katigbak; 'The Telling'
"Some cynical Frenchman has said that there are two parties to a love-transaction: the one who loves and the other who condescends to be so treated." - William Makepeace Thackery; Vanity Fair
"...that stranger is the Puck in the midden, the part of us that makes gold out of trash, poetry out of nonsense. It calls art forth from common sights and music from ordinary sound and without it, the world would be a very grey place." - Charles de Lint; A Tempest In Her Eyes