William Goldman

Life is pain, highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something.

When I was your age, television was called books.

Life isn't fair, it's just fairer than death, that's all

Do I love you? My God, if your love were a grain of sand, mine would be a universe of beaches.

Love is many things none of them logical.

Cynics are simply thwarted romantics.

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

I’ll tell you the truth and its up to you to live with it.

There have been five great kisses since 1642 B.C...(before then couples hooked thumbs.) And the precise rating of kisses is a terribly difficult thing, often leading to great controversy.... Well, this one left them all behind.

This is my favorite book in all the world, though I have never read it.

People don't remember me. Really. It's not a paranoid thing; I just have this habit of slipping through memories. It doesn't bother me all that much, except I guess that's a lie; it does. For some reason, I test very high on forgettability.

She loves you," the Prince cried. "She loves you still and you love her, so think of that--think of this too: in all this world, you might have been happy, genuinely happy. Not one couple in a century has that chance, not really, no matter what the storybooks say, but you could have had it, and so, I would think, no one will ever suffer a loss as great as you.

The enemy is always in the mind.

Existence was really very simple when you did what you were told.