Marveling at his own boldness, he said softly, "I would enter your sleep if I could, and guard you there, and slay the thing that hounds you, as I would if it had the courage to face me in fair daylight. But I cannot come in unless you dream of me.

there never is a happy ending because nothing ever ends.

Your name is a golden bell hung in my heart. I would break my body to pieces to call you once by your name.

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

What is plucked will grow again, What is slain lives on, What is stolen will remain-- What is gone is gone.

Men have to have heroes, but no man can ever be as big as the need, and so a legend grows around a grain of truth, like a pearl.

I feel a whole country growing inside me, thousands of years, millions of people, stupid, crazy, shrewd people, and all of them me. I never felt like that before, I never felt that there was anything inside me, even myself.