But her heart was so cold that she could hold ice in her mouth and it would never melt.

But lost children always find each other, in the dark, in the cold. It is as though they are magnetized, and can only attract their like.

Death is not a checkmate…it is more like a carnival trick. You cannot win, no matter how you move your Queen.

That's Venus, September thought. She was the goddess of love. It's nice that love comes on first thing in the evening, and goes out last in the morning. Love keeps the light on all night.

Never trust anyone under one hundred!

Never put your faith in a Prince. When you require a miracle, trust in a Witch.

You should always listen to minotaurs. Anybody with four stomachs has to have a firm grip on reality.

When one is traveling, everything looks brighter and lovelier.

I’ve a devil of a habit for being right.

Funny how "question" contains the word "quest" inside it, as though any small question asked is a journey through briars.

Do not ruin today with mourning tomorrow.

Whatever it is in life that is worth attaining, there must be something that is provoking an individual to go for that thing passionately.

Conformity runs rampant through everyday life, and people want to read about characters that deviate from societal norms.

If she could find a man who could feel and laugh as well as desire, she might even think about thinking about marriage.

Marriage is indeed a maneuvering business.

I had a talent for scoring films; I just developed it.

The central moral issue of science is that we do not have a science of peace and hardly know where to begin in building one.

I don't know exactly what covetous is, but in my experience it is not so much desiring someone else's virtue or happiness as rejecting it, taking offense at the beauty of it.

Every doctrine has a theory of the beginning.

What I have figured out is that I can predict the future. I just can't predict when.

The marsh, to him who enters it in a receptive mood, holds, besides mosquitoes and stagnation, melody, the mystery of unknown waters, and the sweetness of Nature undisturbed by man.