Dan Johnson

“The world is filled with unmarried marriage counselors.”
― Charles M. Schulz, The Complete Peanuts, 1973-1974

“I cordially dislike allegory in all its manifestations, and always have done so since I grew old and wary enough to detect its presence. I much prefer history – true or feigned– with its varied applicability to the thought and experience of readers. I think that many confuse applicability with allegory, but the one resides in the freedom of the reader, and the other in the purposed domination of the author.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“Genius is no more than childhood recaptured at will, childhood equipped now with man's physical means to express itself, and with the analytical mind that enables it to bring order into the sum of experience, involuntarily amassed.”
― Charles Baudelaire, BAUDELAIRE - the Painter of Modern Life and Other Essays

“TO SOME PEOPLE, Hallowe’en was about the mysteries of the netherworld, about the “veil” between the living and the dead. To me, it was just about the candy, and the kids.”
― LE Jamez, In Creeps the Night