Every affair is a fairy tale or a tragedy.

The distance between an honest Christian mystic and a fortune-teller is sometimes less than half a whisper. Less than a pot of tea or the space between two book covers.

Last century’s magic is this year’s science.

I met his eyes because I could not refuse them... they were the color of a storm clashing with a setting sun.

Only when I fall do I get up again.

Who you are when you have no power to say anything, and who you become when you have power to say everything will determine whether you are a leader or not.

You have to believe. Otherwise, it will never happen.

The simplest questions are the most difficult.

Jean Grey, the Phoenix... she finds a way to reincarnate herself constantly, so one never knows.

Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet.

You don't want to be so open minded that your brains fall out!

We cannot go to heaven in featherbeds.

Some people stay longer in an hour than others can in a week.

Satin and lace and brown velvet and the faint odor of violets. That was all which was left to him of his love.