'I love you, your comeliness charms me, my boy!  And if you're not willing, my force I'll employ.'  "Now father, now father, he's seizing my arm.  Elf-king has done me a cruel harm."

Who's riding so late where winds blow wild  It is the father grasping his child;  He holds the boy embraced in his arm,  He clasps him snugly, he keeps him warm.

"My son, why cover your face in such fear?"  "You see the elf-king, father?  He's near! The king of the elves with crown and train!"  "My son, the mist is on the plain."

'Sweet lad, o come and join me, do!  Such pretty games I will play with you;  On the shore gay flowers their color unfold,  My mother has many garments of gold.'

"My father, my father, and can you not hear  The promise the elf-king breathes in my ear?"  "Be calm, stay calm, my child, lie low:  In withered leaves the night-winds blow."

'Will you, sweet lad, come along with me?  My daughters shall care for you tenderly;  In the night my daughters their revelry keep,  They'll rock you and dance you and sing you to sleep.'

"My father, my father, o can you not trace  The elf-king's daughters in that gloomy place?"  "My son, my son, I see it clear  How grey the ancient willows appear."

The father shudders, his ride is wild,  In his arms he's holding the groaning child,  Reaches the court with toil and dread. -  The child he held in his arms was dead.

I don't feel there's any kind of pain in my life.

I went from just a regular nappy-headed kid in poverty to Amar'e Stoudemire, New York Knicks captain superstar. But there's a lot in between that allowed me to get from point A to point B.

My zombies will never take over the world because I need the humans. The humans are the ones I dislike the most, and they're where the trouble really lies.

I had to learn to walk again, talk again, think again.

The secret of happiness is: Find something more important than you are and dedicate your life to it.

When I wrote 'The Alexandria Link,' I discovered that we are only aware of about 10 percent of the knowledge of the ancient world. In the ancient world, most of the knowledge was destroyed. Every emperor of China who came in wiped out everything that came before them, to the point that the country completely forgot its past.

It doesn't seem to me strange that children should like the macabre, the sensational, and the forbidden.

If God doesn't punish America, He'll have to apologize to Sodom and Gomorrah.

There's too much darkness in the world. Everywhere you turn, someone is tryin' to tear someone down in some way; everywhere you go, there's a feeling of inadequacy, or a feeling that you're not good enough. I want to bring a certain light to the world.

Lust is a captivity of the reason and an enraging of the passions. It hinders business and distracts counsel. It sins against the body and weakens the soul.

New York is a wonderful place to be up, an awful place to be down.

Now I understand what was happening. I don't particularly gain water; I don't have water retention.

TV didn't kill radio, it just added something new to the mix.

True health care reform cannot happen in Washington. It has to happen in our kitchens, in our homes, in our communities. All health care is personal.

Writers of literature make very little money.

If it stands the test of public scrutiny, do it... if it doesn't stand the test of public scrutiny then don't do it.

I didn't for a moment doubt the choice, but if life is ever fearsome, it is truly fearsome then.

Rap music's been around for too long now to be inspirational. The words are, but the music isn't.

I don't like a heavy mask of make-up day or night - mascara and a bit of bronzer.

Don't take 'no' for an answer.

Men don't care what's on TV. They only care what else is on TV.

The desire to hit a big home run is dominating the music business.

Creativity comes from looking for the unexpected and stepping outside your own experience.

I always knew I wanted to be a musician, and I always knew I wanted to write, 'cause the people I was listening to all wrote. I never thought it was an option to sing anyone else's songs.