A memory is a fine legacy to leave behind.

Her power was a wrenching thing, starless black and sorrow, but my magic was something more...it was hope.

And in such bliss does devastation grow.

Who wanted to be smiled at by the girl that trailed shadows like pets, conjured snakes and waited for Death, her bridegroom, to steal her from these walls?

I love you, " he murmured into my hair. "You are my night and stars, the fate I would fix myself to in any life.

I know your soul. Everything else is just an ornament.

You know nothing about me." "I know your soul. Everything else is an ornament.

My joy was ghostly, like something not quite realized.

He loved her. And she loved him. And in such bliss does devastation grow.

I promised you the moon for your throne and stars to wear in your hair, " said Amar, gesturing inside. "And I always keep my promises.

Father once said the real language of diplomacy was in the space between words.

Oh, sometimes I like to put the sand of doubt into the oyster of my faith." (Br. Cadfael)

Family is not a career. It’s why you have a career. If you can’t be there for the big moments, then why are you doing it?

Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power.

Now I am master of Shanghai.

Dead people belong to the live people who claim them most obsessively.

After a person dies, his biographers feel free to give him a glittering list of intimate friends. Anecdotes are so much tastier spiced with expensive names.

Some people out there think everything I do is a publicity stunt, they think when I go to the bathroom it's a publicity stunt.

Entertainment and art are not isolated. Entertainment is in art like color in pictures.

The gallery in which the reporters sit has become a fourth estate of the realm.

So friends, every day do something that won't compute.