A story helps folks face the world, even when it frightens 'em. And a lie does the opposite. It helps you hide.

There's what's smart and what's right." - Molly in the Night Gardener

Runnin's not a bad thing, sir, so long as you're runnin' towards somethin' good.

The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.

The secret of food lies in memory - of thinking and then knowing what the taste of cinnamon or steak is.

In all my life I never met anyone so frivolous as you two, so crazy and unbusinesslike. I tell you in plain Russian your property is going to be sold and you don't seem to understand what I say.

Being a language, mathematics may be used not only to inform but also, among other things, to seduce.

I think for the U.S. government the Sandinistas represented a threat to their dominance of Latin America.

If those people survive, others will be emboldened. If they don't, others will be intimidated.

I was an altar boy and a choir member.

For that was the terrible power of the dementors: to force their victims to relive the worst memories of their lives, and drown, powerless, in theirown despair. . . .

Yesterday was a memory. Today was a hope.

I could have become a soldier if I had waited; I knew more about retreating than the man who invented retreating.