You will come to the woods and choose your mate.

Everyone knew you shouldn't go biting into fruit offered to you by magical creatures in the woods, even if you'd thought until just five minutes ago that such stories were, you know, only stories.

Disheartened, enraptured, and strangely lightheaded, Grady emerged from the trees and walked back through town to the island bridge, his ankles and hands marked up with thorn scratches.

Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say?

Free people were not ruled. Freedom had first to be valued before its existence could be demanded.

Most of our assumptions have outlived their uselessness.

Only the words of love kept alive are worthy of not being wasted.

Sometimes, you know, I cry. And sometimes I scream. And I get really angry. And I get really upset, you know, into wallowing in self-pity sometimes. And I think that it's all part of the healing.

Leadership is only courage and wisdom, and a great carefulness of self.

'Immortals' is all action. I love action movies. That's really where I want to spearhead my career.

I know if I did that [career as painter] all the time I would get tired of it.

The Sputnik is just to me like a firework, a rocket, a new invention.

I resolved that, like the sun, as long as my day lasted, I would look on the bright side of everything.