Natural talent is a questionable phenomenon. Inclination perhaps, but innate ability is extremely rare.

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.

You are, madame, so perfectly armoured, so completely sure of yourself.''Now I wonder, if I am to take that as a compliment?''It is, perhaps, a warning--not to treat life with arrogance.

I must fight with my weapons. Not his. Not selfishness and brutality and shame and resentment.

But I was beginning to intuit that full-blown maturity was not so very different from childhood. Both states in their extreme were all about following the rules.

Spyglass is not interested In Stargate.

Strip away the usual hot air, and bin Laden's audiotape is the sign of a seriously weakened man.

Thank all the people in the world who are always 10% kinder than they need to be.

If we discount the account of creation, we remove the significance of Christmas.

My dad had even hired an accompanist to play for me on a piano. But he had never pushed me to music because I don't think he wanted me to be hurt as much as he was if it didn't work.

Risk is an essential part of progress.

For us, sons of France, political sentiment is a passion; while, for the Englishmen, politics are a question of business.