"I am already married," she remarks to the empty air, twisting the ring on her right hand that covers an sold, distinctive scar.

This is not magic. This is the way the world is, only very few people take the time to stop and note it.

I am tired of trying to hold things together that cannot be held.

I have absurdly vivid dreams.

The finest of pleasures are always the unexpected ones.

Most maidens are perfectly capable of rescuing themselves in my experience, at least the ones worth something, in any case.

People see what they wish to see. And in most cases, what they are told that they see.

Only the ship is made of books, its sails thousands of overlapping pages, and the sea it floats upon is dark black ink.

Tarot is just stories on cards.

Even the air feels different on Halloween, autumn-crisp and bright.

Love is fickle and fleeting," Tsukiko continues. "It is rarely a solid foundation for decisions to be made upon, in any game.

Resentments make even the best of us feel superior.

If he’s hitting you now, stop contemplating leaving him, and just leave.

God cannot be grasped by the mind. If he could be grasped, he would not be God.

Hollywood's schizophrenia over guns is matched only by their attitude toward taxes. Ever wonder why they film in Vancouver so often? It ain't for the beaches, I can tell you.

We may be as good as we please, if we please to be good.

There's nothing routine about 'Boardwalk Empire.' It's like being in some secret society where they call you up and tell you where to go: 'Meet us at the corner of such and so.'

[Al] Franken is left-wing and funny. He's a pretty good political humorist.

I started taking gymnastic classes when I was 3 years old.

There's nothing more prized to a man than something he had to wait for, work for, or struggle a little bit to get.

Sometimes relationships are short, sometimes long, sometimes they're very deep and intense, and drama school is a hell of a learning curve.