But the trick most folk are so awfully fond of learning, the absolute second they've got hold of a heart, is to pretend they don't have one at all. It is the very first danger of the hearted.

You should always listen to minotaurs. Anybody with four stomachs has to have a firm grip on reality.

All jobs are odd, or they would be games or naps or picnics.

It's a dreadful world with only your own heart to drive you.

you have to have the right sort of stone. Peridot for mothers, girasol for lovers, sapphire for sadness, and garnet for joy.

You can't trust just any old person who comes along with a hundred puffins and a pretty face!

Everyone has their invisible cloak of all things past.

That is the trouble with standing up to people, of course. Once you start doing it, you can hardly stop.

All Librarians are Secret Masters of Severe Magic. Goes with the territory.

A Bank is but a college of Fiscal Magic.

Music has more rules than math or magic and it's twice as dangerous as both or either.

A good attitude is the best attire.

Almost every truly creative being alienated & expatriated in his own country

A crowd always thinks with its sympathy, never with its reason.

Said after she had been seriously ill: The doctors were very brave about it.

Only fools need suffer to learn.

Nicola Tesla didn't say, 'I have to make wireless electricity!' The brain does not work that way.

The condition of our survival in any but the meagerest existence is our willingness to accommodate ourselves to the conflicting interests of others, to learn to live in a social world.

I have a three-piece suit. I’m an art collector. I have a funny accent. So I’m probably the killer.

I directed a piece of theater in Italy. We took nine fables from the town and we created a play.