We often confuse what we wish for with what is.

Face your life, its pain, its pleasure, leave no path untaken.

Can you believe it? Fifty miles from McDonald's. I didn't think there was anywhere in the world that was fifty miles from McDonald's.

The Lord of Dreams learns that one must change or die, and makes his decision

She really was pretty, for a grown-up person, but when you are seven, beauty is an abstraction, not an imperative. I wonder what I would have done if she had smiled at me like that now: whether I would have handed my mind or my heart or my identify to her for the asking, as my father did.

You play your cards so close to your chest," said Shadow, "that I'm not even sure they're really cards at all.

That which is dreamed can never be lost, can never be undreamed.