The best moment is when you walk into a bookstore and see a pile of your books - that is the oddest experience in the world!

The strong survive, but the courageous triumph.

A boy and a girl, dressed in the T-shirts and denim that are the shabby uniform of this age.

They ex­pect­ed to lose. And there­fore, they lost. [..] Peo­ple who start think­ing deep dark thoughts in the mid­dle of a war start ex­pect­ing to lose.

Master the rules of the game until you can play it better they can.

Some stories wait their turn to be told, others just tap you on the shoulder and insist you tell them.

A warrior with a cause is the most dangerous soldier of all

You might argue that the history of contemporary art is a series of avant-garde movements, each new wave outraging the last.

The problem with contemporary art is that no one bothers to do the research necessary to give people what they want.

At the heart of every legend there is a grain of truth.

He who retreats lives longer.

Lying is not only saying what isn't true. It is also, in fact especially, saying more than is true, and, in the case of the human heart, saying more than one feels.

[I]t is dangerous for a bride to be apologetic about her husband.

A man from the wood. A stranger from afar. He will break the curse by a hundred kisses...

We love our planet Earth. We should - it is our home, and there's no place like home. There can't ever be a better place than Earth.

I'm the best. I'm the best in the world.

The longer I live the more conscious I am of human frailty, and of the constant, overwhelming need we all have of God’s grace.

And God 'sits in the heavens and laughs' at the proud who pretend to be more than they are.

‎You're not the same as you were before," he said. You were much more... muchier... you've lost your muchness.

An epithet or metaphor drawn from nature ennobles art; an epithet or metaphor drawn from art degrades nature.

I didn't have a Barbie doll, so I played with eternity.