Everything is fine and bright. Day must follow every night. My power keeps me safe from harm. The Goddess holds me in her arms.

There is darkness in light, there is pain in joy, and there are thorns on the rose.

The Goddess teaches us that every ending is also a beginning. May there be rebirth from this death.

Men are natural warriors, but a woman in battle is truly bloodthirsty

No matter how dark you are, no matter what you think your heritage is or how inevitable your fall is, you can always make a choice in the next second to be different.

Women are impossible, witches are worse, and women who are powerful witches are going to be the death of me.

But I also meant that loving someone really opening your heart to them is just asking to have your heart smashed and handed back to you in little pieces.

Fire is a fragile lover, court her well, neglect her not; her faith is like a misty smoke, her anger is destructive hot.

I should have known the power-hungry slave drivers at River's Edge would see my five days of freedom only as a challenge to be filled.

I held a nail in place and slammed it with the hammer. Best. Chore. Ever.

What would it be like to care so little about what other people thought of you?

This is what's so terrifying about being lonely: the instinctive sense that it is literally repulsive, inhibiting contact at just the moment contact is most required.

Every man has a House of Lords in his own head. Fears prejudices misconceptions - those are the peers and they are hereditary.

I wouldn't want to be Superman. Batman would be cool. But the one I've always wanted to play is the Joker. There is a maniacal and dangerous side to me.

Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.

Schools and districts and unions are working together on some really innovative things.

We may be unable to maintain even a semblance of order in our urban schools, which increasingly resemble happy hour in Beirut. But, hallelujah, we sure know how to protect kids from God.

I always just made music that resonates with me emotionally.

you just took on five million years of evolution again

At worst, is not this an unjust world, full of nothing but beasts of prey, four-footed or two-footed?

What's hot today isn't likely to be hot tomorrow. The stock market reverts to fundamental returns over the long run. Don't follow the herd.