Steven Boyett

You had to be a virgin to touch a unicorn...A flush crept up my neck. Okay, so I’d touched her. Being a virgin had some advantages after all. Hooray.

— Steven Boyett

Change implies cause, and cause implies source. Things don’t just happen.

— Steven Boyett

“‘Different laws of physics,’” said Ariel, “and ‘supernatural’ seem synonymous to me.”

— Steven Boyett

A difference which makes no difference is no difference.

— Steven Boyett

“But we’ve got to be quiet. Understand?”“I know how to be quiet. Even girls can do it, under pressure.”

— Steven Boyett

Innocence is in many ways ignorance.

— Steven Boyett

Nothing’s worth living for if there aren’t things you think are worth dying for.

— Steven Boyett

The end of the world turned out to be something I preferred to fantasize about rather than experience.

— Steven Boyett

Don’t go looking for adventure; you might find it.

— Steven Boyett

“The National Hot Air Museum is just down the road a piece,” he added. “Better known by its branch names: the Capitol and the White House.”

— Steven Boyett

Life goes on, yes, and our capacity for self-deception accompanies it.

— Steven Boyett

Tip: utopian and floral town names are inversely proportional to their hellholishness.

— Steven Boyett

The Boyett Style Guide: (a) anything worth doing is worth overdoing (I can’t write a check if it isn’t in iambic pentameter); (b) anything worth saying is worth saying three times; (c) leave no literary stone unturned; (d) fill all cracks, paint all surfaces, and illuminate all dark corners; and (e) whenever two or more metaphors are suitable, use them all. I never metaphor I didn’t like.

— Steven Boyett

I don’t think I believe Evil exists. I believe selfishness does.

— Steven Boyett