Catherynne M. Valente Quotes

We have to wonder, if there is a multiverse, in some other patch of that multiverse are there creatures?

I'm less of a 'Star Wars' fan, with googley monsters, than actually how do we bend this reality out, and how many other realities exist?

From Captain Britain's point of view we live in a great, heavily populated omniverse and our reality is just one part of that. In each of the parallel worlds there is a lighthouse on every shore of every England where the champion has his base.

North Korea and China have proposed what sounds like a pretty sensible option that North Korea should end its development of nuclear weapons, the US should stop carrying out hostile military maneuvers on the North Korean border. The US immediately rejected it. Modernization program is a very clear example of how security doesn't matter. There is no gain in security but massive overkill of the adversary's deterrent capacity. The only consequence of it is to elicit the likelihood of a preemptive attack. And a preemptive attack leads to a nuclear winter world.

Organic as a dandelion seed, [the ship of our imagination] will carry us to worlds of dreams and worlds of facts

You know what a miracle is. Not what Bakunin said. But another world’s intrusion into this one. Most of the time we coexist peacefully, but when we do touch there’s cataclysm.

Snow. White, white, white, soft and clean, and maddening shapes, with the whole world in them.

In this world, only winter is certain

The hollowness was in his arms and the world was snowing.

I have harnessed the shadows that stride from world to world to sow death and madness.

We have traveled through space and time. We have been many places. Visited many worlds. And there is good news: the acoustics everywhere are terrific.

Just study Buddhism. Don't follow the sentiments of the world.

This world without a leopard…I mean, who would want to be here?!

The more clearly one sees this world; the more one is obliged to pretend it does not exist.

The best way is always the simplest. The attics of the world are cluttered up with complicated failures.

The first of all virtues is innocence; the next is modesty. If we banish modesty out of the world, she carries away with her half the virtue that is in it.

It just occurred to me that there are some beautiful shots [in Rent Control] with the World Trade Center in the background.

But when you have chosen your part, abide by it, and do not weakly try to reconcile yourself with the world.

I think the fact that my parents are still, "Hey, great, that's great!" and not, "We need you to do this and be a star!" - it was never like that. My mom's a translator, my dad's a woodworker; that's the world I grew up in, that's the world I'm most comfortable in. The whole idea of Hollywood or any of that other stuff that unfortunately goes along with film, that wasn't part of my upbringing, thankfully.

The most exciting thing in the world to me is that I'm doing what I love to do, and that I'm successful doing it. Pursuing my dream and executing it is exciting to me.