Sometimes. Mostly, no. It's like the people who believe they'll be happy if they go and live somewhere else, but who learn it doesn't work that way. Wherever you go, you take yourself with you. If you see what I mean.
Sometimes. Mostly, no. It's like the people who believe they'll be happy if they go and live somewhere else, but who learn it doesn't work that way. Wherever you go, you take yourself with you. If you see what I mean.
You are obvious, boy. You are difficult to miss. If you came to me in company with a purple lion, a green elephant, and a scarlet unicorn astride which was the King of England in his Royal Robes, I do believe that it is you and you alone that people would stare at, dismissing the others as minor irrelevancies.
You can't trust other people. If it's important, you have to do it yourself.
In reality the world is made of thousands of groups of about five hundred people, all of whom will spend their lives bumping into each other, trying to avoid each other, and discovering each other in the same unlikely teashop in Vancouver. There is an unavoidability to this process. It's not even coincidence. It's just the way the world works, with no regard for individuals or propriety.
People take on the shapes of the songs and the stories that surround them, especially if they don't have their own song.
That's the trouble with you young people. You think because you ain't been here long, you know everything. In my life I already forgot more than you ever know.
So many things to see, people to do.
Because there are mysteries. Because there are things that people are forbidden to speak about. Because there are things they do not remember.
People want to forget the impossible. It makes their world safer.
People populate the darkness; with ghosts, with gods, with electrons, with tales.
There aren't any good guys, and there aren't any bad guys. There's just us. People. Doing our best to get by.
You get ideas from daydreaming. You get ideas from being bored. You get ideas all the time. The only difference between writers and other people is we notice when we're doing it.
People kill what they fear. They burned, and drowned, and hanged those they saw as witches, the devil's servants the wise women and the cunning men, the unfortunate, the lost and the strange.
And I would try and walk far enough away that people would not assume I was with him.
In many ways, it was much, much harder to get the first book contract. The hardest thing probably overall has been learning not to trust people, publicists and so forth, implicitly.
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