But fairytales were, at best, dirty mirrors whose warped and pitted surfaces reflected a highly distorted view of the truth, quite different from reality.

Only the cruelest hunters set their traps with terror and trepidation.

Maybe it frightened them, to admit that a woman could be master of her fate.

...there was a difference between killing for nourishment and killing for curiosity or sport.

He was a phoenix of blood, rising from the ashes of those who had fallen and suffered before him.

We hunger in earnest for that which we cannot consume.

If evil had a laugh, she thought it would sound like his.

Fear could drive one to violence as quickly as anger could.

Most creatures run when they sense danger. People grab a six-pack and a folding chair.

Keep calm. You have the forest in your blood.

Millions of beauties and splendors are waiting for you. You go on moving around and around, never entering into the temple of life. The door is the heart.

Analysis and synthesis are different mental muscles to serve different purposes.

The days when you needed amazing Silicon Graphics machines to run animation software are gone now.

I mean gifts and trips and clothing and all sorts of things, and now he [Tim Kaine] is running for vice president. I don't get what's going on here. He was not a good choice for her.

To judge a man by his weakest link or deed is like judging the power of the ocean by one wave.

As he closed the door he said over his shoulder, "Because you're a good lass." A heavy sigh. "And I'm no' a good man.

Think of one person who you are tempted for any reason to withhold love from, and pray for their happiness. In that moment your pain will stop.

In the midst of sorrow, faith draws the sting out of every trouble, and takes out the bitterness from every affliction.

I always go through different phases of how I write and record. It takes me a long time to kind of conceptualize what feels right.

I believe that there are human stocks with whom it is physically unwise to intermarry, but to think that these stocks are all colored or that there are no such white stocks is unscientific and false.