Her father said she was a princess. He did not see that she was a brave knight.

She understood. They were plastic flowers of words—but they looked nice on the surface.

This is what it is to live in the world. You have to give yourself over to the cold, at least a little bit.

In woods where the woodsmen told lies, maybe it was the wolves who told the truth.

It snowed right before Jack stopped talking to Hazel, fluffy white flakes big enough to show their crystal architecture, like perfect geometric poems.

Kids can handle a lot more than you think they can. It's when they get to be grown up that you have to start worrying.

Sometimes superheroes are born, sometimes they are made. Sometimes they make themselves. Sometimes all it takes is will.

She just eyed them coolly, as if they were nothing to her, as if their nothingness surprised and slightly repelled her.

His words sounded foolish to his own ears. He was not impressive. He was small like the world.

At each step there is a small moment of transformation that cannot be overlooked or rushed. And these moments should not be, because they are beautiful.

He's gone now. He did something terrible, but...he did good things, too. And he kept us well. And it's all right if you are sad.

Then, as now, there would always be people who preferred the option of devoting their religious energies to sacred space over the more difficult duty of compassion.

Whether we fall by ambition, blood or lustLike diamonds, we are cut with our own dust

What we have is a gift from Him. What we do with what we have is our gift to him

Cook, at that moment in time, I would have sold my body for a mocha latte

It's easy at times to win golf tournaments and shoot 59, and sometimes it's hard to post an 85.

Because nothing says flattery like a gun to the head.

I've had the good fortune and blessing to run for the offices for which I really wanted to do the work.

Necessity, that excellent master, hath taught me many things.

Where religion speaks, reason has only a right to hear.

The one thing in my films, I only kill people who need to be killed, or killers killing killers. And I believe that the violence is very justifiable.