My new knight mistress is famed for wielding sharp edges: Sword, Knife and Tongue!

Money talks and walks, but it does not bark.

You look as scary as a buttered muffin.

Without patience, magic would be undiscovered - in rushing everything, we would never hear its whisper inside.

Threats are the last resort of a man with no vocabulary.

It's harder to heal than it is to kill.

Waves are the voices of tides. Tides are life.

I myself have noticed my growing resemblance to a daffodil.

Didn't they realize that the only way to change things was to act?

Without reading, we are all without light in the dark, without fire in the cold.

Waves are the voices of tides. Tides are life," murmured Niko. "They bring new food for shore creatures, and take ships out to sea. They are the ocean's pulse, and our own heartbeat.

Had we but world enough, and time...

It seems an insult to the night to speak of purpose and intent, when this common moment is so brimming full of blessed design tranquility. All things follow their course.

More children suffer from interference than from noninterference.

It can't be overstated how wonderful it is not to have to audition any more. Any actor will tell you, it's like Christmas.

Failing doesn't have to mean not succeeding.

In moments of doubt I cry, ‘Could God Himself create such lovely things as I dreamed?’ ‘Whence then came thy dream?’ answers Hope.

My major aim in writing is to set out flags and issue wake-up calls.

I had a talent for scoring films; I just developed it.

A critic is a lug-worm in the liver of literature.

I'd love to be able to fit in a box. Like one of those people who fit into small boxes. I'd love it.