If I sound petty and malicious, it’s because I am. - Peter S. Beagle

The baloney weighed the raven down, and the shopkeeper almost caught him as he whisked out the delicatessen door.

What I forget not only ceases to exist, but never really existed in the first place.

He is a great enough magician to tap our most common nightmares, daydreams and twilight fancies, but he never invented them either: he found them a place to live, a green alternative to each day's madness here in a poisoned world. We are raised to honor all the wrong explorers and discoverers - thieves planting flags, murderers carrying crosses. Let us at last praise the colonizers of dreams.