The tales of Elfland do not stand or fall on their actuality but on their truthfulness, their speaking to the human condition, the longings we all have for the Faerie Other.

Literature is a textually transmitted disease, normally contracted in childhood.

Touch magic. Pass it on.

Maybe you had to come close to losing something before you could remember its value.

It reminds me that no embrace will ever feel the same again, because no one will ever be like her again, because she's gone. She's gone, and crying feels so useless, so stupid, but it's all I can do.

He wouldn't give a duck a drink if he owned Lake Michigan.

In America, black is a country.

By refusing to pay too much for an investment, you minimize the chances that your wealth will ever disappear or suddenly be destroyed.

A garbled quotation is equivalent to a betrayal, an insult, a prejudice.

A man of learning who makes no use of what he knows, is like a cloud which gives no rain.

Individuality is the aim of political liberty.

I'm showing the younger generation your career doesn't have to be over when you're 16-years-old.

Men do not believe in the power of education. We do not think we can speak to divine sentiments in man, and we do not try. We renounce all high aims.