I burn, I freeze; I am never warm. I am rigid; I forgot softness because it did not serve me.

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.

Talk is cheap when your words have no value.

The first time I saw Cricket, I loved her. Little did I know that skinny, goofy girl would one day grow up to be a great dragon slayer. I would have pegged her for a shoemaker.

No one can come and claim ownership of my work. I am the creator of it, and it lives within me.

The ultimate aim of the ego is not to see something, but to be something.

Unless man has the wit and the grit to build his civilization on something better than material power, it is surely idle to talk of plans for a stable peace.

Tolerance should really be only a temporary attitude; it must lead to recognition. To tolerate means to offend.

Negative books can be bestsellers, but seldom classics.

I feel like there are too many words in the world, and I think silence is so much more powerful than the glut of words.

There's no better feeling than just going in and just working with someone and what comes out is something that the world knows about.

If we learn to love the earth, we will find labyrinths, gardens, fountains and precious jewels! A whole new world will open itself to us. We will discover what it means to be truly alive.