Some of these things are true and some of them lies. But they are all good stories.

It is the absence of facts that frightens people: the gap you open, into which they pour their fears, fantasies, desires.

Florence and Milan had given him ideas more flexible than those of people who'd stayed at home.

When you are writing laws you are testing words to find their utmost power. Like spells, they have to make things happen in the real world, and like spells, they only work if people believe in them.

You learn nothing about men by snubbing them and crushing their pride. You must ask them what it is they can do in this world, that they alone can do.

Fantasy is unconstrained by truth.

His suppressed grief becomes anger. But what can he do with anger? It must also be suppressed.

By the hairy balls of Jesus

For I chase but one hind, he says, one strange deer timid and wild, and she leads me off the paths that other men have trod, and by myself into the depths of the wood.

He has never told anyone this story. He doesn't mind talking to Richard, to Rafe about his past--within reason--but he doesn't mean to give away pieces of himself.

When I was small I dreamed of demons. I thought they were under my bed, but you said, it can't be so, you don't get demons our side of the river, the guards won't let them over London Bridge.

Engage in no pursuit in which you cannot look up unto God, and say, 'Bless me in this, my Father!

Why were we never together anymore, just alone in each other's vicinity?

Be wise. Be brave. Be tricky.

All that philosophers have done is interpret the world in different ways. It is our job to change it.

Rocks crumble, make new forms, oceans move the continents, mountains rise up and down like ghosts yet all is natural, all is change.

The most rational defender of nature is driven by a passion for wildness that cannot be explained by an appeal to logic.

A man can make money but, money can't make a man.

I have the most perfect belly button. When I stick my fingers in it, I feel a nerve in the center of my body shoot up my spine.

I'm as clean as the days are long.

Everybody's got their problems. The important thing is not to complain about it.