"No amount of virtuosic skill and choice of subject matter can be a substitute for depth and poetry."

“Joining a sub-culture, any sub-culture, for whatever reason, is as I see it never a legitimate self-expression. It is always a result of sheep mentality; a wish to belong somewhere.”

“Anyone who doesn't have a great time in San Francisco is pretty much dead to me.”

“The engineer who counts cost as nothing as compared to the result, who holds himself above the consideration of dollars and cents, has missed his vocation.”

“Come, don't be in a fright, but put on your clothes, and I'll let you into a secret. You must know that I am Captain of this ship now, and this is my cabin, therefore you must walk out. I am bound to Madagascar, with a design of making my own fortune, and that of all the brave fellows joined with me...if you have a mind to make one of us, we will receive you, and if you'll turn sober, and mind your business, perhaps in time I may make you one of my Lieutenants, if not, here's a boat alongside and you shall be set ashore.”

“You can't be angsty all day or else it becomes a sort of pale angst.”

Source : Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. December 28, 2010.

“But initially when I was working with my dad, it was in special effects puppets with radio control and motors and puppet effects.”

“I tried to drown my sorrows, but the bastards learned how to swim, and now I am overwhelmed by this decent and good feeling.”

“The Gelaming regarded themselves as a force for good, and in many ways they were, but they were also inexorable and their compassion could often feel like oppression.”

Source : Storm Constantine (2004). “The Wraiths of Will and Pleasure: The First Book of the Wraeththu Histories”, p.454, Macmillan