Mama says I spend too much time in little fantasy worlds and not enough in this one.

I think I liked you better when you were a raging idiot.

Sometimes 'Hmm' is the wisest thing to say.

Everything in the world was about creativity: belief and creation. Storytelling was the essence of both.

Dream of me, my beloved family, happy in my plundering and adventuring, for when the waves rock me to sleep tonight, I will be dreaming of you.

The curse of an interesting life: there are either very good times or very bad times.

We are all fools blessed with the knowledge that certain events will come to pass no matter what path we take to get there. The wise ones follow their angels while they may.

First time's a fluke; second time's a coincidence," said Velius. "Third time's tradition," finished Erik.

Gifts, like words, carried with them a great deal of power. They bestowed good fortune just as powerfully as they could curse; the could bind people together or tear them apart.

Do you still look at each other like you once did, back at the beginning of the story when everything was a question you were too afraid to find the answer to?

Somethings were meant to be and somethings were just meant to be good stories

You do it how you can do it, so long as it's getting done, you're okay.

India is not a nation, nor a country. It is a subcontinent of nationalities.

The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible.

There is no such thing as away. When you throw something away, it must go somewhere.

The war against terrorism is a war against those who engage in torture.

I study to learn, to be an educated person.

That old man...had my division massacred at Gettysburg!

This is a great mind at work examining itself. This is where literature comes from.

I say that the power of vision extends through the visual rays to the surface of non-transparent bodies, while the power possessed by these bodies extends to the power of vision.

Some of the greatest chefs in the world aren't classically trained. Thomas Keller - probably the greatest American chef ever to walk the earth - never went to culinary school. You know?