All those poor elves I haven’t set free yet, having to stay over during Christmas because there aren’t enough hats!

And sure enough, in seeking to become superhuman this foolhardy young man renders himself inhuman. The heart that he has locked away slowly shrivels and grows hair, symbolising his own descent to beasthood.

He felt that he was still groping in the dark; he had chosen his path but kept looking back, wondering whether he had misread the signs, whether he should not have taken the other way.

It is my belief... that the truth is generally preferable to lies.

It is perfectly possible to live a very moral life without a belief in God, and I think it's perfectly possible to live a life peppered with ill-doing and believe in God.

It was a shame, but as Ron said, you couldn't have everything in life.

There are some things you can't share without ending up liking each other.