"Mercy is the true power that can save humanity and the world from sin and evil."

“I also talk a lot in Deeper Reading about the importance that confusion plays. When my students come to me, they think confusion is bad. They are wrong. Confusion is the place where learning occurs.”

“I tan the easy way. I just wait for my liver spots to connect.”

Source : Martha Bolton (2010). “Ha! GIFT: humor for the lighter side of life”, p.63, Simon and Schuster

“It kept him alive, he was certain; even more, it kept his darkest of his demons at bay.”

“Almost all Japanese animation is produced with hardly any basis taken from observing real people, you know. It's produced by humans who can't stand looking at other humans. And that's why the industry is full of otaku!”

Source : "Ghibli’s Hayao Miyazaki says the anime industry’s problem is that it’s full of anime fans" by Casey Baseel, soranews24.com. January 30, 2014.

“A woman is truly beautiful only when she is naked and she knows it.”

“I try very hard to tell stories and not lecture. I try to approach things as an amateur and not an expert, so that when I'm doing something, I'm starting out in a place a lot like where my readers start out - which is to say, naïve.”

“Why can't I write something that would awake the dead? That pursuit is what burns most deeply.”

“Every rein aid must be preceded by an action of the torso. Otherwise you only address the horse's head.”