Fortune-telling doesn't reveal the future; it mirrors the present. It resonates against what your subconscious already knows and hauls it up out of the darkness so you can get a good look at it.

Witchery is merely a word for what we are all capable of.

It's all a matter of paying attention, being awake in the present moment, and not expecting a huge payoff. The magic in this world seems to work in whispers and small kindnesses.

It's all those stories and how they braid together that tells us who and what and where we are

You've got to find yourself first. Everything else'll follow.

Stone walls confine a tinker; cold iron binds a witch; but a musician's music can never be fettered, for it lives first in her heart and mind.

I'm not Chinese. I thrive in interesting times.

Don't forget - no one else sees the world the way you do, so no one else can tell the stories that you have to tell.

There's bad apples in whatever way you want to group people - doesn't matter if it's religious, political or social. The big mistake is generalizing.

Magic lies in between things, between the day and the night, between yellow and blue, between any two things.

We're so quick to cut away pieces of ourselves to suit a particular relationship, a job, a circle of friends, incessantly editing who we are until we fit in.

Humility raises us not by human arrogance but by divine grace.

One of the greatest joys in life is watching a child laugh

Where is truth? Is there truth in what I am doing now?

Nay, be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought.

Understanding something in one way does not preclude understanding it in other ways.

I think we can get respect for Parliament back providing governments and oppositions are frank.

I am home because I am a writer, but sometimes, when I'm not productive (productivity: the expectations of capitalism), I feel like a terrible housewife, or a sick person.

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

When you think about it, we're strapping strange planks of wood to our feet and launching off of giant snow walls. It's pretty intense.