What use is magic if it can't save a unicorn?

We are not always what we seem, and hardly ever what we dream.

The last unicorn lived in a lilac wood, and she lived all alone.

...no place is more enchanted than where a unicorn has been born.

Great heroes need great sorrows and burdens, or half their greatness goes unnoticed. It is all part of the fairy tale.

Take me with you. For laughs, for luck, for the unknown. Take me with you.

You ever want to see real witchcraft, you watch people protecting their comfort, their beliefs.

Unicorn. Old French, unicorne. Latin, unicornis. Literally, one-horned: unus, one and cornu,a horn. A fabulous animal resembling a horse with one horn.

Real magic can never be made by offering someone else's liver. You must tear out your own, and not expect to get it back.

Your name is a golden bell hung in my heart. I would break my body to pieces to call you once by your name.

The true secret in being a hero lies in knowing the order of things...Things must happen when it is time for them to happen.

For men, women are their ‘counter weights’ and when that is not enough, their daughters are their ‘counter weights.’ One can’t do without a counter weight. Otherwise, he will fall over.

You are dehydrated, " I said. "The result of alcohol taken in excess. But that is the only way to take it. It is the only way to do a man any good.

The social brain is in its natural habitat when we're talking with someone face-to-face in real time.

[The war on terrorism isn't a religious war, but] a defense of our right to make moral choices, to seek fellowship with God that is chosen and not commanded.

How do you know yer alive if you don't hurt?

I had rather follow you to your grave than see you owe your life to any but a regular-bred physician.

Obviously, I haven't really progressed that much at my craft.

Feminism has nothing to do with partisanship.

...boredom is all about perception. It's a self-diagnosis, plain and simple. If you don't realize you're bored, you're not.