This was the kind of job that made legends out of hunters. Of course, to be a legend, you generally had to be dead.

I will love you until the day they put me in the earth.

A queen keeps a court that is spoken about. A goddess keeps a court that is never forgotten.

Emotion without reason lets people walk all over you; reason without emotion is a mask for cruelty.

Your name is written on my heart, Lily

You trying to make me crazy?” “Everyone needs a hobby.

But you, you’ve always been the rain, the wind, inside my mind. I taste you when I sleep, when I wake, when I breathe.

Bluebell, you couldn’t take me if I was blindfolded and had both hands tied behind my back.” “Bluebell?” Illium narrowed his eyes. “That’s it, Barbarian.

Some things were worth the dance with danger.

To fight evil, you have to understand the dark.

You’ll have to be my conscience.” He knew his flaws, and he knew the parts of him that were irrevocably broken. “Mine isn’t going to grow back.

Architecture is space structured to serve man and to move him.

Our [people's] very saving is associated with our gratitude. Which follows: if our fall in the garden was ingratitude, then salvation must be intimately related to giving of thanks.

I had a prior deal in place to do a miniseries for HBO, so I'm not done with TV. But I basically want to stay in movies.

Generalissimo Stalin directed every move... made every decision... He is the greatest and wisest military genius who ever lived...

The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land.

Really, the one thing that actually works - you know, state-run communism may not be your cup of tea, but [China's] government works.

I'm never lonely when I'm writing, because you live with the characters that are so alive in your mind. And you really see them and know them and get to be friends with them.

Eaten bread is forgotten.

Therapy really did prepare me to become an empathic songwriter. As far as advice goes, it's a matter of self understanding first.

In fact, the very phrase "teaching creative writing" sounds to me oxymoronic. How can you teach someone to be creative?