"I am on Aslan's side even if there isn't any Aslan to lead it. I'm going to live as much like a Narnian as I can even if there isn't any Narnia.

"It hurts to look at the clouds, but it also helps, like most things that cause pain.”


"Life is hard, and children have to be told how hard life can be…So they will be sympathetic to others. So they will understand that some people have it harder than they do and that a trip through this world can be a wildly different experience, depending on what chemicals are raging through one’s mind.”


“If clouds are blocking the sun, there will always be a silver lining that reminds me to keep on trying.”


“I am practicing being kind over being right.”

“Life is random and fucked-up and arbitrary, until you find someone who can make sense of it all for you— if only temporarily.”

"By precluding meaningful communication it fosters misunderstanding on both sides."

My workroom is reached through a door over which sits a bust of Thoth, god of knowledge and inventor of number. Thoth is a trickster, which is as it should be: numbers are sly.

Students curve round me as a cat's tail curves round a seated cat. Half the Caesarium is filled.