She was a sea: and I had to swim in her.

Often people who are wonderful with animals aren't always terribly good with human beings.

Of all the rash and midnight promises made in the name of love, none, Boone now knew, was more certain to be broken than "I'll never leave you.

I've always thought that the most extraordinary special effect you could do is to buy a child at the moment of its birth, sit it on a little chair and say, "You'll have three score years and ten," and take a photograph every minute. "And we'll watch you and photograph you for ten years after you die, then we'll run the film." Wouldn't that be extraordinary? We'd watch this thing get bigger and bigger, and flower to become extraordinary and beautiful, then watch it crumble, decay, and rot.

My imagination is my polestar; I steer by that.

Life is short And pleasures few And holed the ship And drowned the crew But o! But o! How very blue the sea is.

Fear is a place where you just tell the truth