The bond between true lovers is as close as we come to what endures forever.

There are two kinds of knowledge, local and universal.

The king was pregnant.

I always wondered why the makers leave housekeeping and cooking out of their tales. Isn't it what all the great wars and battles are fought for -- so that at day's end a family may eat together in a peaceful house?

One of the things [fiction] does is lead you to recognize what you did not know before.

Nothing said in words ever came out quite even. Things in words got twisted and ran together, instead of staying straight and fitting together.

A man does not make his destiny: he accepts it or denies it.