Excuse me, " she said politely. "But you can't have him. Not yet. He's going to come back with me.

Alan, you seem to think we won't like you unless you do things just like everyone else. Have you ever thought we might like you because you're different?

Alanna: All I know is that I'm to jump when I'm told and I have no free time.

Alanna didn't approve of lying, but in a pinch a lie was sometimes better than the truth.

George looked at her for a long moment. Finally he replied, "And why do you find it so hard to think someone might like you and want to do things for you?

Well, laddie, if you've let an old buzzard like me hurt you confidence, you couldn't have had much in the first place.

Stefan spat. "Oh, aye, he fell. O' course, Master Ralon helped him fall, several times. Poor li'l tyke didn't have a chance.

We're men, and men aren't born to stand alone.

If I say you're a goatherd's son, you say, 'Yes, Lord Ralon.'"Alanna gasped with fury. "I'd as soon kiss a pig! Is that what you've been doing-kissing pigs? Or being kissed?

Moral issues rarely have yes or no answers.-Myles to Alanna when she asks about the Gift

I wish you would thrash him. He deserves it."She looked back at him. "I will one day, sir. I'm getting tired of falling down.

For the commission to do a great building, I would have sold my soul like Faust. Now I had found my Mephistopheles. He seemed no less engaging than Goethe's.

Not having money to spend doesn’t mean we can’t have well-spent moments every day. (42)

The most daring thing is to be yourself and to do exactly what you want to do at that point in time and not to be worried with what other people are doing or what's popular.

I had a lumpectomy. It wasn't that bad. Six and a half weeks of radiation.

What is well done is done soon enough.

We sometimes feel that we have been really understood, but it was always long ago, by someone now dead.

I never made films like kind of career moves, like making this film in order to make that film in order to end up in Hollywood.

The truly modern artist is aware of abstraction in an emotion of beauty.

In life, like, I'm always living life to the fullest to always have fun.

My diet is much better. I eat what I have to. The older you get, the better you get at making sacrifices.