Look, I’m sorry if I don’t measure up to how people want me to be, but this is just the way I am. - Charles de Lint

He had too much cat in his blood - a deep-rooted feline twitch that would travel the length of his nerves to tickle his mind at the faintest sign of a mystery, no matter how small. He could no more let a riddle go unsolved than he could pass by the perfect length of colourful wire without picking it up.

As the new work fills my notebooks, I've come to realize that the characters in my stories were so real because I really did want to get close to people, I really did want to know them. It was just easier to do it on paper, one step removed.

A long time ago a bunch of people reached a general consensus as to what’s real and what’s not and most of us have been going along with it ever since.