There is no such thing as a happy ending. I never met a single one to equal "Once upon a time.

When you're six, most of your Bingo balls are still floating around in the draw-tank.

The world's a hard place, Danny. It don't care. It don't hate you and me, but it don't love us, either. Terrible things happen in the world, and they're things no one can explain. Good people die in bad, painful ways and leave the folks that love them all alone. Sometimes it seems like it's only the bad people who stay healthy and prosper. The world don't love you, but your momma does and so do I.

What if there were no grownups? Suppose the whole idea of grownups was an illusion? What if their money was really just playground marbles, their business deals no more than baseball-card trades, their wars only games of guns in the park? What if they were all still snotty-nosed kids inside their suits and dresses? Christ, that couldn't be, could it? It was too horrible to think about.

He sat upon his throne, which is made of skulls.

There may be fairies, there may be elves, but God helps those who help themselves.

Resistance to change is proportional to how much the future might be altered by any given act.