Everyone has their invisible cloak of all things past.

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.

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 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!

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.

Only God is capable of telling us what our rights and needs are. You have to surrender that right to Him.

I was born a character actor.

We looked at each other for the last time; nothing is as eloquent as nothing.

Lord, lord, lord. Protect me from the consequences of the above prayer.

Oh, God, who does not exist, you hate women, otherwise you'd have made them different. And Jesus, who snubbed your mother, you hate them more.

Every man who deserves to be famous knows it is not worth the trouble.

The guys in my band buy instruments and sell and trade them. But if I have something I hang onto it. Everything is sentimental to me.

You have to always physicalize, when you do animation recording. Otherwise, you won't get the performance right.

Writers know - especially new writers - [that] a lot of it [creative process] is the prewriting stage, the talking, brainstorming, the narrative arc and the character sketches.

Some typewriters in Whitehall, in the Pentagon, killed more civilians than our little A4 could have ever hoped to.