Evil begins when you begin to treat people as things.

I should have learned this, she thought. I wanted to learn fire, and pain, but I should have learned people.

I’m a witch. It’s what we do. When it’s nobody else’s business, it’s my business.

Letitia! What a name. Halfway between a salad and a sneeze.

Preston, I don't think this creature could ever find its way into your head. Quite apart from anything else, it seems pretty crowded and complicated to me.

One day I'll work out what it is you are saying, my lad, and then you'll be in trouble.

Well, child? Aren't you going to try to turn me into some kind of unspeakable creature?I don't think I shall bother, madam, seeing as you are making such a good job of it yourself!

A stink. A stench. A foulness in her mind, dreadful and unforgiving. A compost of horrible ideas and rotted thoughts that made her want to take our her brain and wash it.

Fire is easy to work with if you keep your mind clear, but pain . . . pain fights back. Pain is alive. Pain is the enemy.

It's witchcraft with all the crusts cut off, and real witchcraft is ALL crusts.

They’d have people out looking for her, and nothing makes grown-ups quite so mad as finding a child safe when they’d been scared silly that they might find that child dead.

I've made this decision not to talk to the press about anything that's gone on in my life, but just to write music about it. They can interpret it themselves.

The flood subsides, and the body, like a worn sea-shell emerges strange and lovely.

'The Show' was the most fun I ever had and the most creative period of my life.

He who has good health is young.

I take a lot of pride in being myself. I'm comfortable with who I am.

Changes made to please others are unrealistic, but more important, they're unfair to you.

I like my lyrics to feel conversational and truthful, as if we're having real talk. I don't really like generic lyrics.

I raised another shot. "That sound you hear is the heads of moral conservatives spontaneously exploding in the distance.

Unless you're involved with thinking about what you're doing, you end up doing the same thing over and over, and that becomes tedious and, in the end, defeating.