“Where are these fucking guns coming from?”

“Gay and Lesbian Canadians are entitled to equal treatment under law and are part of Canada's diversity.”

“In any war, there are calms between storms. There will be days when we lose faith. Days when our allies turn against us...but the day will never come that we forsakethis planet and its people.”

“Freedom is the right of all sentient beings.”

“I don't live by the fuckin Dow Jones anymore. I live by the Tao, Jones.”

“I set my words carefully upon the page; they have taken time to prove, to ripen and mature.I look and listen to their cadence, shape and syllables.Like bread and cheese and wine, I lay them out for you”

“Violence; violence, and power, in the context of yet somebody else walking up to the groaning boards of fantasy’s eternal wedding feast, still laden with the cold meats from Tolkien’s funeral, and cheekily joining everyone who’s trying to send the whole thing smashing to the ground just to hear the noise all that crockery will make. —But! Also: genderfuck, hearts broken cleanly and otherwise, the City of Portland, Spenser, those moments in pop songs when the bass and all of the drums except maybe a handclap suddenly drop out of the bridge leaving you hanging from a slender aching thread of melody waiting almost dreading the moment when the beat comes back, and the occasional bit of swordplay.”