We know truth for the cruel instrument it is. Beauty is infinitely preferable to truth.

All these kings would do a deal better if they would put down their swords and listen to their mothers.

You can't hammer tin into iron, no matter how hard you beat it, but that doesn't mean it's useless.

Better to mock the game than to play and lose.

The strongest trees are rooted in the dark places of the earth. Darkness will be your cloak, your shield, your mother's milk. Darkness will make you strong.

I was born in Bayonne, New Jersey. I grew up in the projects. I never went anywhere. But I have lived a thousand lives and I’ve loved a thousand loves. I’ve walked on distant worlds and seen the end of time. Because I read.

He had found over the years that silence sometimes yielded more than questions. And so it was this time.