..no meal is good enough to justify all the money and effort wasted in preparing it. It is an illusion and an expense. Live as I do, undeceived.

Take me with you. For laughs, for luck, for the unknown. Take me with you.

No," he repeated, and this time the word tolled in another voice, a king's voice... whose grief was not for what he did not have, but for what he could not give.

Great heroes need great sorrows and burdens, or half their greatness goes unnoticed. It is all part of the fairy tale.

I love whom I love," Prince Lir repeated firmly. "You have no power over anything that matters.

...no cat out of its first fur can ever be deceived by appearances. Unlike human beings, who enjoy them.

A Clock is not time; it's numbers and springs. Pay it no mind.