Fantasy has a better chance of lasting than a lot of other things. The Hobbit and the Narnia books, they seem to get handed down father to son, mother to daughter. Because they're set in a fantasy world, they can remain relevant.

Cold start is a hard start.

I'm most afraid of losing my mind. You lose your identity, your sense of who you are, where you are.

Every marriage has two hearts, one light and one dark

The only leverage the manufacturer can apply to the retailer is his relationship with the consumer. And the main element in profit growth is going to have to lie in making his brand more valuable to the retailer, through its being more valuable to the consumer. And that means his brand must be unique, it must have no adequate direct substitutes - because it is in this, after all, that value lies.

Any parting could be forever, and we don't know.

No one ever really pays for betrayal in silver....The price of any betrayal always comes due in flesh.