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

He is a great enough magician to tap our most common nightmares, daydreams and twilight fancies, but he never invented them either: he found them a place to live, a green alternative to each day's madness here in a poisoned world. We are raised to honor all the wrong explorers and discoverers - thieves planting flags, murderers carrying crosses. Let us at last praise the colonizers of dreams.

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

The horns came riding in like the rainbow masts of silver ships.

There are honest people in the world, but only because the devil considers their asking prices ridiculous.

Never run from anything immortal. It attracts their attention.

Her face was a stranger’s face, which was as it should be. Love each other from the day we are born to the day we die, we are still strangers every minute, and nobody should forget that, even though we have to.