Evil was coming. I wondered whose face it would be wearing.

To many people, free will is a license to rebel not against what is unjust or hard in life but against what is best for them and true.

Being alone can be good. It's easy to find peace alone. But sometimes, being alone is a king of death.

Shakespeare again. Once you let him into your head, he takes up tenancy and will not leave.

Sometimes there is no darker place than our thoughts, the moonless midnight of the mind.

I think the world is full of evil people. I think in some ways we're in more danger now than before.

In real life during the last decade of the twentieth century, Rumpelstiltskin would probably get the queen's daughter. He would no doubt addict her to heroin, turn her out as a prostitute, confiscate her earnings, beat her for pleasure, hack her to pieces, and escape justice by claiming that society's intolerance for bad-tempered, evil-minded trolls had driven him temporarily insane.