Now what happens?” asked the man in black. “We face each other as God intended,” Fezzik said. “No tricks, no weapons, skill against skill alone.””You mean you’ll put down your rock and I’ll put down...

Princess. By S. Morgenstern. It’s a kids’ classic. Tell him I’ll quiz him on it when I’m back next week and that he doesn’t have to like it or anything, but if he doesn’t, tell...

Funny thing- Morgenstern’s folk’s were named Max and Valerie and his father was a doctor.

How can the removal of beauty from a world so lacking in beauty be anything but tragic?

True love is the best thing in the world, except for cough drops.

By day it is filled with boat traffic – waterbuses, delivery boats, gondolas – if something floats and it’s in Venice, it moves along the Grand Canal.And by daylight it is one of the glories...

Flailing and thrashing, Buttercup wept and tossed and paced and wept some more, and there have been three great cases of jealousy since David of Galilee was first afflicted with the emotion when he could...

I am your Prince and you will marry me,” Humperdinck said.Buttercup whispered, “I am your servant and I refuse.””I am you Prince and you cannot refuse.””I am your loyal servant and I just did.””Refusal means...

The dweam of wuv wapped wiffin the gweater dweam of everwasting west. Eternity is our fwiend, wemember that, and wuv wiw fowwow you fowever.

Writing is finally about one thing: going into a room alone and doing it. Putting words on paper that have never been there in quite that way before. And although you are physically by yourself,...

Is it safe?

Her heart was a secret garden and the walls were very high.

I must court her now,’ said the Prince. ‘Leave us alone for a minute.’ He rode the white expertly down the hill.Buttercup had never seen such a giant beast. Or such a rider.’I am your...

Who can know when his world is going to change? Who can tell before it happens, that every priorexperience, all the years, were a preparation for . . . nothing.

Buttercup’s mother whirled on him. ‘Did you forget to pay your taxes?’ (This was after taxes. But everything is after taxes. Taxes were here even before stew.)

He’s gaining on us,” the Turk said. “That is also inconceivable,” the Sicilian said. “Before I stole this boat we’re in, I made many inquiries as to what was the fastest ship on all of...

I write out of revenge.

Once upon a time,” because the audience gets antsy.

The Queen’s Pride was his ship, and he loved her. (That was the way his sentences always went: It is raining today and I love you. My cold is better and I love you. Say...

Life is pain, Highness. Anyone who tells you differently is selling something.

It must have been fifty seconds before Doc died.Long time.

I’m going to tell you something once and then whether you die is strictly up to you,” Westley said, lying pleasantly on the bed. “What I’m going to tell you is this: drop your sword,...

I know something you do not know. I am not left-handed either.

In Hollywood, no one knows anything.

That’s what I mean,” said Fezzik.