War is not for winning, Masha," sighed Koschei, reading the tracks of supply lines, of pincer strategies, over her shoulder. "It is for surviving.

But lost children always find each other, in the dark, in the cold. It is as though they are magnetized, and can only attract their like.

Death is not a checkmate…it is more like a carnival trick. You cannot win, no matter how you move your Queen.

That's Venus, September thought. She was the goddess of love. It's nice that love comes on first thing in the evening, and goes out last in the morning. Love keeps the light on all night.

Never trust anyone under one hundred!

Never put your faith in a Prince. When you require a miracle, trust in a Witch.

You should always listen to minotaurs. Anybody with four stomachs has to have a firm grip on reality.

When one is traveling, everything looks brighter and lovelier.

I’ve a devil of a habit for being right.

Funny how "question" contains the word "quest" inside it, as though any small question asked is a journey through briars.

Do not ruin today with mourning tomorrow.

Music repairs us when it breaks the silence.

When the past has taught us that we have more within us than we have ever used our prayer is a cry to the divine to come to us and fill us with its power.

It takes a great deal of strength to be an optimist.

God expects but one thing of you, and that is that you should come out of yourself in so far as you are a created being made and let God be God in you.

I still encourage anyone who feels at all compelled to write to do so. I just try to warn people who hope to get published that publication is not all it is cracked up to be. But writing is.

Almost every one of my various zero numbered birthdays has had a big concert in London and often in Paris.

People say it's really the press who create those soundbites about fashion. That's what sells magazines and clothes.

Six years-six little years-six drops of time.

Our coach was absolutely out of his head. He must have read Bear Bryant's book. We had 78 players out. The first day 35 quit. Twenty quit the second day. We ended with 17 players. It was depressing.

Mothers will be fishing kids out of obscure cubby-holes for years!