I’ve learned that being alone and being lonely are not the same thing. Once I was surrounded by people and lonely for it, but now I’m alone and I’ve never been so content.

Forgive me again.” He lifts the carafe and refreshes his goblet. “What happened to those two children who laughed at dandelion fuzz?” he says softly. “Are they gone forever, do you think?

We’re to be married. Does it matter if I permit it?”“To me it does, yes, ” says Merek. “And I imagine you, like me, appreciate the illusion of having a choice, even when illusion is all it is.

But I want you, ” he smiles at me. “Not just to make me a king. I’ve always wanted you. Despite it all, you are still the bride I would choose. I do choose you.

You have the strength to survive any situation.

You will never attain and maintain more than you think you deserve.

The whole idea of interviews is in itself absurd - one cannot answer deep questions about what one's life was like - one writes novels about it.

I met a young man who was wounded in love, I met another man who was wounded in hatred.

Do things that make your body and mind scream at you to quit, but don't.

There are so many ways to go wrong. All we've got are metaphors, and they're never exactly right. You can never just Say. The. Thing.

Make the movie your way. Surround yourself with people who know more than you.

Nothing anyone says in a bar is true.

The songs that you start to write that you are a little scared of can be the ones that you have to tell.

Vanity Fair is a very vain, wicked, foolish place, full of all sorts of humbugs and falsenesses and pretensions.