Of course you always had that detached quality as if you were playing a game without much concern over whether you won or lost, and now that you've lost the game, not lost but just quit playing, you have that rare sort of charm that usually only happens in very old or hopelessly sick people, the charm of the defeated.

You take it for granted that I am in something that I want to get out of.

A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.

You can be young without money but you can't be old without it.

For time is the longest distance between two places.

The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It's inflammatory.

I don't want realism. I want magic!