It seemed only right that beauty was the key to the industry, and the sacrificing of beauty to buy possessions seemed only fair to her evolving mind.

Thus the little mermaid learned her world’s greatest paradox: that their currency was beauty, and their coin was body parts.

Music, it seemed, could appear in many voices, and had all of the emotions and array of vocabulary as a human..

I brought you here to tell you this: sometimes what we are searching for does not exist. We may sacrifice for it, even bleed for it, but it was never meant to be ours.

Ladies and Gentlemen, take my advice, pull down your pants and slide on the ice.

There is no such thing as a free variable.

Faith isn't figuring out what we're able to do, it's deciding what we're going to do - even when we think we can't.

To have a thing is little, if you're not allowed to show it, to know a thing, is nothing unless others know you know it.

I feel that I have done everything, absolutely everything wrong, but perhaps something nice will happen anyway.

Except from the Americans—but every pearl has its oyster.

There is nothing more wonderful than being remembered for a perfume.

I can not imagine a God ... made happy by my getting down on my knees and calling him 'great'.

Loving someone who doesn't love you back is like hugging a cactus. The tighter you hold on, the more it's going to hurt.