Break the spine of one of my books and I break yours.

Move swift as the Wind and closely-formed as the Wood. Attack like the Fire and be still as the Mountain.

Bitterness is so ugly.

Comparison is a thug that robs your joy. But its even more than that - Comparison makes you a thug who beats down somebody - or your soul.

New York lost a classic. Carmine was an old school New Yorker.

The fey wonders of the world only exist while there are those with the sight to see them.

Your being born makes your parents God. You owe them your life, and they can control you. Then puberty makes you Satan, just because you want something better.

To remain static is to lose ground.

Nowadays beautiful women are counted among the talents of their husbands.

I realized I was afraid of living without him. How is it you have the right to destroy my life, I wanted to demand of him, but I’m not allowed a say in yours? But I had promised.

I'm always a little unnerved when I see a show that's set in the past that implies in any way that things were nicer then.