The dragon, you know, hunkered in the village devouring maidens, heard the townsfolk cry 'Monster!' and looked behind him.

She moved like a poem and smiled like a sphinx.

Hope can be a powerful force. Maybe there's no actual magic in it, but when you know what you hope for most and hold it like a light within you, you can make things happen, almost like magic.

I know it's not easy for you, living this life, but try to remember, always try to remember, you're not the only one with troubles.

Creamy and leggy, with long azure hair and the eyes of a silent-movie star, she moved like a poem and smiled like a sphinx.

...something was starting to take shape, out of magic and will. Smoke and bone.

Did you know that mako shark fetuses eat each other in the womb?... Its true. Only cannibal fetuses survive to be born. Can you imagine if people were like that?

And just so you know, the invaders are always the bad guys. Always.

And they were quiet but their blood and nerves and butterflies were not—they were rampantly alive, rushing and thrumming in a wild and perfect melody, matched note for note.

Because hope comes from in you, and wishes are just magic.

My tiny scary friend is coming

What do you expect? This place is one big anti-climax.

From time to time I show up in myself just long enough for people to know they are not in the room alone.

Controversial proposals, once accepted, soon become hallowed.

The more you lose the right to be jealous, the more so you become!

Theory is knowledge that doesn't work. Practice is when everything works and you don't know why.

Osama bin Laden has hired 10 look-alikes. Now, how hard up do you have to be before you take that job? There's no way to win! If Osama dies, you don't get paid. If you're found, you get killed.

Political conflicts distort and disturb a people's sense of distinction between matters of importance and matters of urgency. What is vital is disguised by what is merely a matter of well being.

Effective action is always unjust.

Films like Harry Potter and Narnia, I'm sure they'll do another one. The biggest audience of course is the youngsters.

I got even with all the bad management I had by being a good manager