This is a work of fiction. All the characters in it, human and otherwise, are imaginary, excepting only certain of the fairy folk, whom it might be unwise to offend by casting doubts on their existence. Or lack thereof.

Grasp the subject, the words will follow.

Cato The Elder

My mother died of metastatic colorectal cancer shortly before three P.M. on Christmas Day of 2008. I don't know the exact time of her death, because none of us thought to look at a clock for a while after she stopped breathing.

Meghan O'Rourke

Politicians say they're beefing up our economy. Most don't know beef from pork.

Hariold Lowman

A laugh is a surprise. And all humor is physical. I was always athletic, so that came naturally to me.

Chevy Chase

The human contribution is the essential ingredient. It is only in the giving of oneself to others that we truly live.

Ethel Percy Andrus

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.

Aristotle

The friendship we share grows amidst the craggy rock pond reeds of water spray fireflies scented with bonfires.

Bradley Chicho

I like being in kids' movies, and I like being in family movies.

Bill Nighy

Truth is important than anything. But you have to know how to handle it well.

Dee White

Of course that is not the whole story, but that is the way with stories; we make them what we will. It's a way of explaining the universe while leaving the universe unexplained, it's a way of keeping it all alive, not boxing it into time.

Jeanette Winterson

Let thy discontents be thy secrets.

Benjamin Franklin

If you can dream it, then you can achieve it. You will get all you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want.

Zig Ziglar