He wanted to write someone and demand a refund on his dark side which clearly ought to have irresistible magical power but had turned out to be defective.

Many have stood their ground and faced the darkness when it comes for them. Fewer come for the darkness and force it to face them.

To worship a sacred mystery was just to worship your own ignorance.

I'm lazy! I hate work! Hate hard work in all its forms! Clever shortcuts, that's all I'm about!

Every mystery ever solved had been a puzzle from the dawn of the human species right up until someone solved it.

I only want power so I can get books.

What people really believe doesn't feel like a BELIEF, it feels like the way the world IS.

I don't want to rule the universe. I just think it could be more sensibly organised.

Okay, so either (a) I just teleported somewhere else entirely (b) they can fold space like no one's business or (c) they are simply ignoring all the rules.

World domination is such an ugly phrase. I prefer to call it world optimisation.

But it is cute. It's such a boy thing to do.Drop dead.Aw, you say the most romantic things.

Where lipstick is concerned, the important thing is not color, but to accept God's final word on where your lips end.

There are so many things in life I hope to experience and attend, but so many more I'm hoping that I miss.

Mothers can get weaned as well as babies.

Physic is, for the most part, only a substitute for temperance and exercise.

I am not African because I was born in Africa but because Africa was born in me.

The things men come to eat when they are alone are, I suppose, not much stranger than the men themselves.... A writer years ago told me of living for five months on hen mash.

I wanna be free. Free to scream, free to bathe, free to paint my toes all day.

On stage, generally speaking, the story is stopped or held back by songs, because that's the convention. Audiences enjoy the song and the singer, that's the point.

The one thing in my films, I only kill people who need to be killed, or killers killing killers. And I believe that the violence is very justifiable.

For lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone; the flowers appear on the earth; the time of the singing of birds is come, and the voice of the turtledove is heard in our land.