Writing a book is a blood sport. If it doesn't hurt when you're done, you're probably doing something wrong.

Magic is a dangerous thing, child. It isn’t something to use lightly.

Keep secret things secret and they will serve you the better!

It is only the brave who win life’s rewards. Those who don’t overcome their fears are destined to fail at even the least things.

Funny thing about revenge. It could make a killer out of a nun.

I don't personally look to my own life experiences for answers about how to play a scene.

Hold out your hands to feel the luxury of the sunbeams.

I lost everything. When I was 28 years old, I lost my home, my job, my partner. I had many people die in my life. I felt like a total victim.

These poor rich men, we anglers pity them perfectly.

If we're going to bring out the best in people, we, too, need to sow seeds of encouragement.

Your dead sleep quietly, at least, Captain, out of reach of sharks" "Yes, sir, of sharks and men.

One thing that's never gonna go, you know, go sour is good music.

When summer gathers up her robes of glory, and like a dream of beauty glides away.

I could have missed the pain but I'd of had to miss the dance.

I venerate the man whose heart is warm, Whose hands are pure, whose doctrine and whose life, Coincident, exhibit lucid proof That he is honest in the sacred cause.