Be very chary of telling your hoarded secrets. Many lose all power once they have been divulged.

The world had to change and for some reason the prosperity of men always results in them taking ever more from wild creatures and places.

In the dead of night I stirred. Wakefulness flowed back into me. I was a cup full of sorrow, but that sorrow was stilled, like a pain that abates as long as one does not move.

Isn't it strange how wise counsel can cool the hottest head? He made sense but my heart screamed protest.

There would always be dishonorable things done to preserve the honor of any power.

Everything she sang was true. I will leave it to you as to whether the truth can exist with details omitted, or if those lacks make a lie of it.

Assassins take no pride in fighting fairly. We take pride in winning.

Think of what is and don't let what might have been distract you.

I could not make it right, but I could make someone pay for how wrong it had been.

This was misery that could not yield, for he sorrowed for a time he could not return to, and a self he would never again be.

The word of a cat is not to be relied upon.

My heart is my home.

I feel no peace, I feel nothing. I think I will feel nothing forever.

He who is flexible masters the day.

I love facts and figures. It's like following a detective story, piecing together what's going on in the economy.

My son, George, has been a bad, bad boy! Right, George?

Music is the art of sounds in the movement of time.

The most effectual way to be deceived is to believe oneself more cunning than one's neighbors.

For acting, if there's a strong female role and there is that action element, for me that just feels really natural.

Good painting is like good cooking; it can be tasted, but not explained.

I would like to see us get this place right first before we have the arrogance to put significantly flawed civilizations out onto other planets, even though they may be utterly uninhabited.