That was the danger of nostalgia, Drizzt realized. One often remembered the good of the past while forgetting the troubles.

But I was afraid of the questions (much more than the accusations) you might both put to me.

You are entitled to wonder and to doubt - you're free.

Goths do not hate the world. They just learned to accept the world that refuses to understand them.

I could not stop talking because now I had started my story, it wanted to be finished. We cannot choose where to start and stop. Our stories are the tellers of us.

Do not let it look as if you reasoned too much. Painting must be impulsive to be worth while.

It is as clear as the sun and as evident as the day that there is no God and that there can be none.

I can remember at college, living on 30-cent meals.

When the saint ceases to seek after holiness, purity, righteousness, truth; when he ceases to pray, stops reading the Word and gives way to carnal appetites, then it is that Satan comes.

He likes to take strolls by himself and believes dog-catchers are friendly innkeepers who'll take care of a meal. He's gullible and has never learned to fight back against a ruthless world.

A thousand kisses buys my heart from me; And pay them at thy leisure, one by one.