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.….

The most professional curse ever snarled or croaked or thundered can have no effect on a pure heart..

Love was generous precisely because it could never be immortal..

The tune was wailing and mournful, almost flagrantly so, and the total effect was of a heartbroken piccolo being parted forever from its bagpipe love….

I know how to live here, I know how everything smells, and tastes, and is. What could I ever search for in the world, except this again?.

Great heroes need great sorrows and burdens, or half their greatness goes unnoticed. It is all part of the fairy tale..

Only to a magician is the world forever fluid, infinitely mutable and eternally new. Only he knows the secret of change, only he knows truly that all….

He had never missed God or the hope of heaven, but he had dearly wanted confession to rest his mind, Communion to let him touch something beyond Fath….

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….

Haggard, I would not be you for all the world," he declared. "You have let your doom in by the front door, although it will not depart that way. (...….

The woman I loved died because I did not love her enough - what greater sin is there than that?" (Uncle Chaim and Aunt Fifke and the Angel).

Who has choices need not choose. We must, who have none. We can love but what we lose-- What is gone is gone..

The true secret in being a hero lies in knowing the order of things...Things must happen when it is time for them to happen..

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..

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….

Unicorn. Old French, unicorne. Latin, unicornis. Literally, one-horned: unus, one and cornu,a horn. A fabulous animal resembling a horse with one hor….

Your name is a golden bell hung in my heart. I would break my body to pieces to call you once by your name..

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..

But I'm always dreaming, even when I'm awake; it is never finished." -the Lady Amalthea, from The Last Unicorn.

Don't be afraid. Don't be afraid of anything. Whatever you have been, you are mine now. I can hold you..

A rhinoceros is as ugly as a human being, and it too is going to die, but at least it never thinks that it is beautiful..