Occupation: Author Birth: April 20, 1939
But I'm always dreaming, even when I'm awake; it is never finished." -the Lady Amalthea, from The Last Unicorn.
Sparrows and cats will live in my shoe, Sooner than I will live with you. Fish will come walking out of the sea, Sooner than you will come back to me..
I am what I am. I would tell you what you want to know if I could, for you have been kind to me. But I am a cat, and no cat anywhere ever gave anyone….
She said, "I will go no farther." "There is no choice. We can only go on." The magician said again. "We can only go on..
You ever want to see real witchcraft, you watch people protecting their comfort, their beliefs..
Sitting up all night would be pointless if somebody you loved wasn't sitting up with you, picking out music to play and helping you kill the bourbon.….
I feel a whole country growing inside me, thousands of years, millions of people, stupid, crazy, shrewd people, and all of them me. I never felt like….
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….
The Lady Amalthea beckoned, and the cat wriggled all over, like a dog, but he would not come near... She was offering her open palm to the crook-eare….
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….
The Unicorn Sonata... tells us that our true home is often right around the corner, if we'd only open our eyes - and our ears - to find it..
I suppose I could understand it if men had simply forgotten unicorns, but not to see them at all, to look at them and see something else — what do th….
Heroes know that things must happen when it is time for them to happen. A quest may not simply be abandoned; unicorns may go unrescued for a long tim….
But I must go on," said the Lady Amalthea, "for it is never finished. Even when I wake, I cannot tell what is real, and what I am dreaming as I move ….
What is plucked will grow again, What is slain lives on, What is stolen will remain-- What is gone is gone..
Envy nobody. It is the true secret of happiness, or at least the only one I know. (By Moonlight).
Don't be afraid. Don't be afraid of anything. Whatever you have been, you are mine now. I can hold you..
I love whom I love," Prince Lir repeated firmly. "You have no power over anything that matters..
I am afraid! It is not starving I fear, or talking to people, or even being alone. But I cannot bear to be useless and ineffectual. There must be som….
Avicenna California...Museum of my twisted youth, vault of my dearest and most disgusting memories..
My son, your ineptitude is so vast, your incompetence so profound, that I am certain you are inhabited by greater power than I have ever known..