I am the most miserable person who ever lived, " he said... "You are young, and in love, " said Primus. "Every young man in your position is the most miserable young man who ever lived.

Every lover is, in his heart, a madman, and, in his head, a minstrel.

There is something about riding a unicorn, for those people who still can, which is unlike any other experience: exhilarating, and intoxicating, and fine.

There was once a young man who wished to gain his Heart’s Desire.

You have to believe. Otherwise, it will never happen.

Anyone who believes what a cat tells him deserves all he gets.

Adventures are all very well in their place, but there's a lot to be said for regular meals and freedom from pain.

He was painfully shy, which, as is often the manner of the painfully shy, he overcompensated for by being too loud at the wrong times.

There is a proverbial saying chiefly concerned with warning against too closely calculating the numerical value of un-hatched chicks.

I would not wish to marry someone who had already been married. It would be, ' she opined, 'like having someone else break in one's own pony.

Yeah, you and me, we can ride on a starIf you stay with me, girlWe can rule the worldYeah, you and me, we can light up the skyIf you stay by my sideWe can rule the world

I became one of those anonymous Americans who tries to keep his mind sharp and inquisitive while performing all the humiliating rituals of the middle class

In contradiction and paradox, you can find truth.

Back before the internet we had a name for people who bought a single copy of our books and lent them to all their friends without charging: we called them "librarians".

There is no known device for artistic contraception.

Bullialdus wrote that all force respecting ye Sun as its center & depending on matter must be reciprocally in a duplicate ratio of ye distance from ye center.

As we grow older, our capacity for enjoyment shrinks, but not our appetite for it.

When I started writing this, I found that I simply couldn't take fantasy seriously, so it became humorous, and continued from there.

Those presents are the most acceptable which are enhanced by our regard for the donor.

Whether you're a presidential front-runner, or an Academy Award-winning actor, or head of a TV ministry, if you stay in the public eye long enough they're going to try and find a scandal.

I have never read horror, nor do I consider The Exorcist to be such, but rather as a suspenseful supernatural detective story, or paranormal police procedural.