She is so stubborn, her heart has an argument with her head every time it wants to beat.

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.

It is tempting to write the history of technology through products: the wheel

I am a hopeless romantic and I love to spoil my girlfriends.

I don't feel like I have the intelligence to really inhabit a consistently high level of prose.

Novels are . . . an unsurpassed form to understand people.

And then all the host of Rohan burst into song, and they sang as they slew, for the joy of battle was on them, and the sound of their singing that was fair and terrible came even to the City.

O memory, thou bitter sweet,--both a joy and a scourge!

We cannot choose one desktop over the other - Gnome or KDE - because there's users for both code bases.

Frenchmen have an unlimited capacity for gallantry and indulge it on every occasion.

A Germany team should not be afraid going into a tournament. History shows that we can raise the level of our game when it matters.