That's why I love spiders. 'If at first you don't succeed, try, try, try again.

I think we ought to live happily ever after.

To love someone enough to let them go, you had to let them go forever or you did not love them that much.

Writing for adults, you have to keep reminding them of what is going on. The poor things have given up using their brains when they read. Children you only need to tell things to once.

Happiness isn't a thing. You can't go out and get it like a cup of tea. It's the way you feel about things.

A heart's a heavy burden.

She was remorseless, but she lacked method.

I am a believer in free will. If my dog chooses to hate the whole human race except myself, it must be free to do so.

Only thin, weak thinkers despise fairy stories. Each one has a true, strange fact hidden in it, you know, which you can find if you look.

Being a hero means ignoring how silly you feel.

A garden should be natural-seeming, with wild sections, including a large area of bluebells.

Life without making progress is dead. What is life if you don't embrace new truths that scare you, meet people who intimidate you, and so on.

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

When I was 12, I forgot the keys to my parent's apartment. So I simply climbed up seven floors to get in.

You are not a failure until you start blaming others for your mistakes

I don't know much about football but everyone seems to say that it is all about possession.

Passion is Love's blind guide, but the only one he hath.

When sculpting the human figure in stone it is necessary to draw the whole form out of the content of the head.

When his nomination comes before the United States Senate, Timothy Batten can count on my strong support... He is the right person for the job.

O magnet-South! O glistening perfumed South! My South! O quick mettle, rich blood, impulse and love! Good and evil! O all dear to me!

[Making movies is] 80% script and 20% getting great actors. There's nothing else to it.