There are no happy endings, because nothing ends.

You have to be very deep to be dead, he thought, and I'm not. He began to have some concept of forever, and his mind shivered as his body had when he had wakened in the cold nights and thrust his hands between his thighs to keep warm. It will be a long night, he thought.

Don't be afraid. Don't be afraid of anything. Whatever you have been, you are mine now. I can hold you.

The moon was gone, but to the magician's eyes the unicorn was the moon, cold and white and very old, lighting his way to safety, or to madness.

What do men know? Because they have seen no unicorns for a while does not mean we have all vanished.

A rhinoceros is as ugly as a human being, and it too is going to die, but at least it never thinks that it is beautiful.

There's a phrase, "sitzfleisch", which means just plain sitting on your ass and getting it done. Just showing up for work. My uncle Raphael was a painter, and he used to say, "If the muse is late for work, start without her". You have to be there. You have to be there, and do it, and grind it out, even when it is grinding and you know you're probably going to rewrite all this tomorrow.