Being in love was like China: you knew it was there, and no doubt it was very interesting, and some people went there, but I never would.

You speak of destiny as if it was fixed.

There's a hunger for stories in all of us, adults too. We need stories so much that we're even willing to read bad books to get them, if the good books won't supply them.

Just finished 'Secrecy' - truly enthralling both as a love story and as a tale of suspense - but much more than both.

There’s been terrible things we seen, en’t there? And more a coming, more’n likely. So I think I’d rather not know what’s in the future. I’ll stick to the present.

The great thing about fairy tales and folk tales is that there is no authentic text.

Everything means something.