"Let me see if I've got this Santa business straight. You say he wears a beard, has no discernible source of income and flies to cities all over the world under cover of darkness? You sure this guy isn't laundering illegal drug money?"

“I walked away from going to church when I was 8. I didn't set foot in another church until I was 28.”

“If you love it, you don't know much about typography. And if you hate it, you really don't know much about typography either and you should get another hobby.”

“The reason women don't vote for Republicans is not that they haven't had the impact of Republican policies spelled out in simple enough terms for them. It's because they understand Republican policies perfectly well. Women vote against Republicans because they know the impact Republican policies have on their lives.”

“The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open.”

“We are so trained in the thought system of fear and attack that we get to the point where natural thinking - love - feels unnatural and unnatural thinking - fear - feels natural. It takes real discipline and training to unlearn the thought system of fear.”

“The best place to start an adventure is with a quiet, perfect life . . . and someone who realizes that it can’t possibly be enough.”

Source : Kevin J. Anderson, Neil Peart (2012). “Clockwork Angels: The Novel”, p.13, ECW Press

“No-man's land under snow is like the face of the moon: chaotic, crater ridden, uninhabitable, awful, the abode of madness.”

Source : Wilfred Owen (1965). “The Collected poems of Wilfred Owen”, p.160, New Directions Publishing

“I am here on Earth to express myself, and the many media of art are my magic carpets that allow me the freedom to do so.”