The true secret in being a hero lies in knowing the order of things...Things must happen when it is time for them to happen.

Only to a magician is the world forever fluid, infinitely mutable and eternally new. Only he knows the secret of change, only he knows truly that all things are crouched in eagerness to become something else, and it is from this universal tension that he draws his power.

Who has choices need not choose. We must, who have none. We can love but what we lose-- What is gone is gone.

The last unicorn lived in a lilac wood, and she lived all alone.

He thought, or said, or sang, I did not know that I was so empty, to be so full.

song of elli (old age) "What is plucked will grow again, What is slain lives on, What is stolen will remain What is gone is gone... What is sea-born dies on land, Soft is trod upon. What is given burns the hand - What is gone is gone... Here is there, and high is low; All may be undone. What is true, no two men know - What is gone is gone... Who has choices need not choose. We must, who have none. We can love but what we lose - What is gone is gone.

I always say perseverance is nine-tenths of any art — not that it's much help to be nine-tenths an artist, of course.