Occupation: Author Birth: April 20, 1939
We are raised to honor all the wrong explorers and discoverers thieves planting flags, murderers carrying crosses. Let us at last praise the colonize….
There are honest people in the world, but only because the devil considers their asking prices ridiculous..
If a man loved me, I would have talked myself into loving him, and I would have loved him very deeply after a while..
song of elli (old age) "What is plucked will grow again, What is slain lives on, What is stolen will remain What is gone is gone... What is sea-born ….
Ah, love may be strong, but a habit is stronger, And I knew when I loved by the way I behaved..
How's the Angel of Death supposed to do his job with clipped wings?.
..no meal is good enough to justify all the money and effort wasted in preparing it. It is an illusion and an expense. Live as I do, undeceived..
You were the one who taught me," he said. "I never looked at you without seeing the sweetness of the way the world goes together, or without sorrow f….
Then what is magic for?" Prince Lír demanded wildly. "What use is wizardry if it cannot save a unicorn?" He gripped the magician's shoulder hard, to ….
The most professional curse ever snarled or croaked or thundered can have no effect on a pure heart..
Take me with you. For laughs, for luck, for the unknown. Take me with you..
There's a phrase, "sitzfleisch", which means just plain sitting on your ass and getting it done. Just showing up for work. My uncle Raphael was a pai….
I am a king's daughter, And if I cared to care, The moon that has no mistress Would flutter in my hair. No one dares to cherish What I choose to crav….
No," he repeated, and this time the word tolled in another voice, a king's voice... whose grief was not for what he did not have, but for what he cou….
But I'm always dreaming, even when I'm awake; it is never finished." -the Lady Amalthea, from The Last Unicorn.
...but the enchantment of error that you put on me I must wear forever in your eyes..
Great heroes need great sorrows and burdens, or half their greatness goes unnoticed. It is all part of the fairy tale..
Unicorn. Old French, unicorne. Latin, unicornis. Literally, one-horned: unus, one and cornu,a horn. A fabulous animal resembling a horse with one hor….
Wisdom is finding joy in bewilderment.
Marveling at his own boldness, he said softly, "I would enter your sleep if I could, and guard you there, and slay the thing that hounds you, as I wo….
Never run from anything immortal. It attracts their attention..