Living in England, provincial England, must be like being married to a stupid but exquisitely beautiful wife.
I feared my own kind more than anything the natural world could ever threaten me with.
Boredom is vastly underrated. Boredom means that nothing is trying to kill you every day.
Leave the pain behind and let your life be your own again. There is a place where all time is now, and the choices are simple and always your own. Wolves have no kings
In that last dance of chances I shall partner you no more. I shall watch another turn you As you move across the floor. In that last dance of chances When I bid your life goodbye I will hope she treats you kindly. I will hope you learn to fly. In that last dance of chances When I know you'll not be mine I will let you go with longing And the hope that you'll be fine. In that last dance of chances We shall know each other's minds. We shall part with our regrets When the tie no longer binds.
Anticipating pain was like enduring it twice. Why not anticipate pleasure instead?
When we come back to fantasy, I think we're actually coming back to the real bedrock of storytelling. Our national or international genre really is fantasy, if you think about the worldwide myths and legends and stories that we all know, whether we're talking about Little Red Riding Hood or the Arabian Nights or Noah's Ark or Hercules. These are stories that cross many cultures in much the same way that dragons cross many cultures.
[I want to build] the biggest apparel company in human history.
Do you even really know how vampires are made?' 'Well, when a mommy vampire and a daddy vampire love each other very much.
I don't care if you got knocked up. I can still rip your throat out
Results only come to those who master the paradoxical art of doing and not doing, of letting go as a person in order that the immanent and transcendent unknown quantity may take hold. We cannot make ourselves understand; the most we can do is to foster a state of mind in which understanding may come to us.