The world is full of horror. Our imaginations struggle to keep up. It would be a poor life without imagining. I’m not sure we can have any salvation,…

- Steve Rasnic Tem

If you love someone, they leave you. But if you don't love someone, they leave you, too. So your choice isn't between loving and losing but only betw…

- Steve Rasnic Tem

The strongest presence is so often an absence.

- Steve Rasnic Tem

Imagination transforms one substance into another. It changes what is into what might be, what was into what might have been. Straw becomes gold, gol…

- Steve Rasnic Tem

I was never very good with either my hands or feet. It always seemed to me they'd just been stuck on as an afterthought during my making. Dreams didn…

- Steve Rasnic Tem

For so long I have lived on the edge of an invisible world. Sometimes I feel like the scattered debris left over after the personality has fallen out…

- Steve Rasnic Tem

For most of my life I've been a listener. At least in the beginning, I think the reason I listened so intently was to have a chance of hearing the tr…

- Steve Rasnic Tem