
People react differently to puppets than they do to human performers: they become more playful, more open.

Y.A. wasn't really a specific genre when I was fifteen, but if it was, I would probably have shunned it; I was a huge snob.

If I could have broken his neck I would have, just for the pleasure of the silence after the snap.

The verge, he likes to say. That's where we want them, the utter, utter verge.

I knew that change was coming, the way you know things you can't see, by feeling them; by instinct. The way the bees know everything they know.