As was often the case, Magic just chuckled and kicked physics in the balls, leaving it groaning and wondering what just happened.

I had said before that all stories were magic. It had never occurred to me that all magic was stories.

Loss alone is but the wounding of a heart

Stars are the souls of old sailors. They plot the skies and guide the wayward home.

Nowadays 'invisibility' was supposed to be the big problem, but the way I saw it was, all that mattered was to be visible to yourself.

Men are April when they woo December when they wed maids are May when they are maids but the sky changes when they are wives.

I work with nature, although in completely new terms.

I'm very much of the mindset that if you've made the record you wanted to make and there's nothing about it that you would change, then you should just be proud and happy with what you've done.

Life as a shorty shouldn't be so rough.

I consider myself to be a relatively helpful person, and there's an interesting line when hope starts to become the way you actually mask or hide from what's really happening.

Negativity drove me out of politics in the mid-Nineties.

Sicily is more beautiful than any woman.