All my life I've wanted to be the kid who gets to cross over into the magical kingdom.

Witchery is merely a word for what we are all capable of.

It's all a matter of paying attention, being awake in the present moment, and not expecting a huge payoff. The magic in this world seems to work in whispers and small kindnesses.

It's all those stories and how they braid together that tells us who and what and where we are

You've got to find yourself first. Everything else'll follow.

Stone walls confine a tinker; cold iron binds a witch; but a musician's music can never be fettered, for it lives first in her heart and mind.

Fortune-telling doesn't reveal the future; it mirrors the present. It resonates against what your subconscious already knows and hauls it up out of the darkness so you can get a good look at it.

I'm not Chinese. I thrive in interesting times.

Don't forget - no one else sees the world the way you do, so no one else can tell the stories that you have to tell.

There's bad apples in whatever way you want to group people - doesn't matter if it's religious, political or social. The big mistake is generalizing.

Magic lies in between things, between the day and the night, between yellow and blue, between any two things.

In general, nine-tenths of our happiness depends on our health alone.

Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where noone notices the contrast of white on white.

In the long run, the aggressive civilizations destroy themselves, almost always. It's their nature. They can't help it.

Good businesses can survive a little bad management.

Love's all in all to women.

The Christian religion is, above all the religions that ever prevailed or existed in ancient or modern times, the religion of wisdom, virtue, equity and humanity.

It's my own personal unconscious that ultimately creates the novel's aesthetic facade.

When a modest man praises himself, people listen.

Ma-ma does everything for the baby, who responds by saying Da-da first.

No more like together than is chalke to coles.