Man is no star, but a quick coalOf mortal fire:Who blows it not, nor doth controlA faint desire,

Who says that fictions only and false hairBecome a verse? Is there in truth no beauty?Is all good structure in a winding stair?

Be calm in arguing: for fierceness makes Error a fault, and truth discourtesy.

Pushing and passing to find my way to you my Lord, holding you in my prayers is feeling you and to feel you is to lose all fear

Story!" The dwarf snorted. "You'll be talking about "happily ever after" next. Do we look happy? There's no happily ever after for us. Miserabily ever after, more like.

From now on, change will be the constant. The individuals best prepared to succeed are those who can learn, modify, and grow, regardless of age, experience, or ego.

It is curious to look back and realize upon what trivial and apparently coincidental circumstances great events frequently turn as easily and naturally as a door on its hinges.

Poetry is a game of loser-take-all.

All actors have to change their name.

His calumny is not only the greatest benefit a rogue can confer on us, but the only service he will perform for nothing.

Fairy tales have rules. You are a princess or you aren’t. You are pure at heart or you aren’t. If you are pure at heart, or lucky, you might catch a break.

I had neither expert aid nor advice. I studied no courses in writing; until a year or so ago, I never read a book by anybody advising writers how to write.