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..

I fear it, for her sake. It would mean that she too is a wanderer now, and that is a fate for human beings, not for unicorns. But I hope, of course I….

I am no king, and I am no lord, And I am no soldier at-arms," said he. "I'm none but a harper, and a very poor harper, That am come hither to wed wit….

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.….

We are raised to honor all the wrong explorers and discoverers thieves planting flags, murderers carrying crosses. Let us at last praise the colonize….

What is plucked will grow again, What is slain lives on, What is stolen will remain-- What is gone is gone..

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….

They know these mornings well and love them desperately because they cannot last - these people who know that nothing lasts..

Sing to me," she said. "That would be valiant, to raise your voice in this dark, lonely place, and it will be useful as well. Sing to me, sing loudly….

Unicorns are not to be forgiven." The magician felt himself growing giddy with jealousy, not only of the touch but of something like a secret that wa….

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. (...….

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….

...because in a way it happened to someone else. I don't really speak that person's language anymore, and when I think about her, she embarrasses me ….

What do men know? Because they have seen no unicorns for a while does not mean we have all vanished..

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

It's really not so good to have time. Rush, scramble, desperation, this missed, that left behind, those others too big to fit into such a small space….

I always say perseverance is nine-tenths of any art — not that it's much help to be nine-tenths an artist, of course..

I love whom I love," Prince Lir repeated firmly. "You have no power over anything that matters..

Men have to have heroes, but no man can ever be as big as the need, and so a legend grows around a grain of truth, like a pearl..

What happened instead was that the tree fell in love with him and began to murmur fondly of the joy to be found in the eternal embrace of a red oak. ….