“For even the most dehumanized modern fantasies depend on some older and simpler figure; the adventures may be mad, but the adventurer must be sane.”
“I get mad when people call me an action movie star. Indiana Jones is an adventure film, a comic book, a fantasy.”
“Is this what it is to get older, to have adventures you can no longer tell your family because you are moving apart from them?...Or do you grow up and have adventures you tell no one? Are some adventures only yours alone?”
“Steampunk is...a joyous fantasy of the past, allowing us to revel in a nostalgia for what never was. It is a literary playground for adventure, spectacle, drama, escapism and exploration. But most of all it is fun!”
“To be a woman is a great adventure;To drive men mad is a heroic thing.”
“To be loved, feelings must be rationed. To love, the doors of hysteria, fantasy, and madness may be flung open.”