He was giving me enough rope to hang myself with. Apparently he didn't realize that once a noose is tied it will fit one neck as easily as another.

When we are children we seldom think of the future. This innocence leaves us free to enjoy ourselves as few adults can. The day we fret about the future is the day we leave our childhood behind.

Words are pale shadows of forgotten names. As names have power, words have power. Words can light fires in the minds of men. Words can wring tears from the hardest hearts.

I have, of course, been called many other things. Most of them uncouth, although very few were unearned

The world is a mess and I just need to rule it.

Half of seeming clever is keeping your mouth shut at the right times.

It's like everyone tells a story about themselves inside their own head. Always. All the time. That story makes you what you are. We build ourselves out of that story.

It was wise enough to know itself, and brave enough to be itself, and wild enough to change itself while somehow staying altogether true.

If I seem to wander, if I seem to stray, remember that true stories seldom take the straightest way

There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man.

Do not mistake me for my mask. You see light dappling on the water and forget the deep, cold dark beneath.

We have to get out of here, Bram. Before they take our bollocks and use them for pincushions.

Straight is the gate and narrow is the way which leadeth unto life and few there be that find it.

We always long for forbidden things k and desire what is denied us.

Telling some stories, Miss Leroy says, is committing suicide.

It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace.

Our ignorance of God is too great, because our estimations of God are too little.

Talent is a dull knife that will cut nothing unless it is wielded with great force.

If the enemy leaves a door open, you must rush in.

My beauty simply shines forth like the sun!