Not all people who inspire devotion are monsters.

Gratitude takes less energy than anger.

Some of the smartest men have a hard time comprehending the obvious.

Things don't ever stay the same. Natural beginnings come to natural or unnatural ends.

There isn't a simple person anywhere in this world.

If her enemies were Brigan's friends and her friends were Brigan's enemies, then the two of them could walk through the world arm in arm and never be hit by arrows again.

There will be no yelling at people who are bleeding themselves to unconsciousness.

You're the queen, and it's the queen's house, and whatever Brigan may accomplish, he's highly unlikely ever to be queen.

And of course she understood now why her body wanted to run whenever he appeared. It was a correct instinct, for there was nothing to be got from this but sadness.

He thinks we're made of money.

Do you understand? I don't want you to do a thing if you don't understand it.

A man can be knocked down a thousand times and can still get back up, but when he puts himself down he has defeated himself more than a million others could have done.

You’d have been scared too if that big troglodyte had put his hands on you. He smelled like dirty socks and store brand cola.” Chet Andrews

Pride is not the opposite of shame, but it's source. True humility is the only antidote to shame.

Nature like man sometimes weeps for gladness.

The object of art is to crystallize emotion into thought, and then fix it in form.

I say beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.

There are plenty of clever young writers. But there is too much genius, not enough talent.

The quality of CGI, audiences are now so used to it. They don't know what is CGI and what is real.

I have seen everything possible covered in studs and grommets. Also, what I call angry shoes: those platforms with the multiple buckles and studs. I think the polished girl is back.

Love lives on hope, and dies when hope is dead; It is a flame which sinks for lack of fuel.