However unlikely it may seem, it is the truth and, therefore, one hundred percent likely.

Death is not a checkmate…it is more like a carnival trick. You cannot win, no matter how you move your Queen.

Do not ruin today with mourning tomorrow.

Hats have power. Hats can change you into someone else.

We all live inside the terrible engine of authority, and it grinds and shrieks and burns so that no one will say: lines on maps are silly.

Where there is a Key, there is yet hope.

That’s what happens to friends, eventually. They leave you. It’s practically what they’re for.

It is well known that reading quickens the growth of a heart like nothing else.

She sounds like someone who spends a lot of time in libraries, which are the best sorts of people.

When the world changes, it stashes us away where we can't make it run the other way again.

So most people go around with grimy machinery, when all it would take is a bit of spit and polish to make them paladins once more, bold knights and true.

It does not matter how long you live, but how well you do it.

You’ve got little time on earth, make each day count

When beauty lives in the heart, it doesn’t need to show up anywhere else.

Will they remember us, Aravan? Will Mankind remember us at all?" ... Mayhap, Gwylly, mayhap. Mayhap in their legends and their fables. Mayhap in naught but their dreams.

Well, if you can accept that I’m a great big geeky fangirl, then I guess I can accept that you’re a skeptic and a realist.

THE MOMENT YOU WANT SOMEONE ELSE'S LIFE IS THE MOMENT YOU SPIRITUALLY KILL YOURSELF

Every year, I am conscious of the anniversary of my 1974 World Trade Center walk.

I keep my own personality in a cupboard under the stairs at home so that no one else can see it or nick it.

Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time.

It's so funny, actors usually have a directing ambition. I've got no ambition for directing.