When I was very young every grownup was a hero. It's been all downhill since then, and I have only two left.

We are not always what we seem, and hardly ever what we dream.

The last unicorn lived in a lilac wood, and she lived all alone.

...no place is more enchanted than where a unicorn has been born.

Great heroes need great sorrows and burdens, or half their greatness goes unnoticed. It is all part of the fairy tale.

Take me with you. For laughs, for luck, for the unknown. Take me with you.

You ever want to see real witchcraft, you watch people protecting their comfort, their beliefs.

Unicorn. Old French, unicorne. Latin, unicornis. Literally, one-horned: unus, one and cornu,a horn. A fabulous animal resembling a horse with one horn.

Real magic can never be made by offering someone else's liver. You must tear out your own, and not expect to get it back.

Your name is a golden bell hung in my heart. I would break my body to pieces to call you once by your name.

The true secret in being a hero lies in knowing the order of things...Things must happen when it is time for them to happen.

[Everything you write is] not simply a collection of words, but a means of influence not to be taken lightly. Let your recipient's emotions be the gondola, and your words, its gondolier.

It's good to have an end in mind but in the end what counts is how you travel.

Every disability conceals a vocation, if only we can find it, which will 'turn the necessity to glorious gain.

Reading gives us someplace to go when we have to stay where we are

Times change, people change, thought and feeling take new shapes, put on fresh garments, sons bow their heads unwillingly to that which enraptured their fathers.

There is hardly any personal defect... which an agreeable manner might not gradually reconcile one to.

In wrestling, my mustache made me look more like a villain. A good mustache can give you the look of the devil.

Culture means control over nature.

You know some of the people in The Strokes, yeah, their parents had success - but we didn't live like yuppies.

I never earned a dollar that was not somehow through writing.