Gadfangled girl things, always robbed me of my common sense.

Wherever they may have come from, and wherever they may have gone, unicorns live inside the true believer's heart. Which means as long as we can dream, there will be unicorns.

Withholding information is the essence of tyranny. Control of the flow of information is the tool of the dictatorship.

If you don’t jump, the wings never come.

I am ignoring you. In fact, I think you are a figment of my imagination.

The real heroes are the librarians and teachers who at no small risk to themselves refuse to lie down and play dead for censors.

Hey, Geekoid!" yelled Duncan Dougal, "Why do you read so much? Don't you know how to watch TV?

The first draft of a story is the writer's clay.

Sometimes when you mend a chain, the place where you fix it is strongest of all... Never was a chain that couldn't be broken. Sometimes its even a good idea.

How in the world do you tellyour wife that her mother was born a unicon?

Still, the painful death of that unicorn had been satisfying to watch

I guess we all have some of these - memories like artillery shells, fired at close range.

I'd been blindsided with the most painful knowledge: the first man to ever say he loved me had never loved me at all. His passion had been artificial. His pursuit of me had been choreographed.

When people get scared, they quit giving.

I always felt that one day I would have to make the change in my own life, bite the bullet and see what it is to be a composer who conducts rather than the other way around.

He whom nature thus bereaves, Is ever fancy's favourite child; For thee enchanted dreams she weaves Of changeful beauty, bright and wild.

If I hadn't been a part of [Harry Potter] I would have been deeply upset.

Beethoven's string quartets express pain itself; it is not MY pain.

You can make change or it can make YOU. Change is to keep us on our toes. Change is to make us look more closely. What doesn't change are the arms you use to hug with. Those stay the same.

And when the night is cloudy There is still a light that shines on me Shine on until tomorrow, let it Be...

I was the youngest of seven kids and I would not have been able to go to college without an athletic scholarship.