How quickly was every bad thing discovered to be the fault of the previous administration (an evil set of men who wedded general stupidity to wickedness of purpose).

Sing like no one is listening. Love like you’ve never been hurt. Dance like nobody’s watching, and live like it’s heaven on earth.

She wore a gown the color of storms, shadows, and rain and a necklace of broken promises and regrets.

Can a magician kill a man by magic?” Lord Wellington asked Strange. Strange frowned. He seemed to dislike the question. “I suppose a magician might,” he admitted, “but a gentleman never would.

He understood for the first time that the world is not dumb at all, but merely waiting for someone to speak to it in a language it understands.

There must come a time when the bullets will run out

I know magicians and I know magic and I say this: all magicians lie and this one more than most.

I was told once by some country people that a magician should never tell his dreams because the telling will make them come true. But I say that is great nonsense.

Time and I have quarrelled. All hours are midnight now. I had a clock and a watch, but I destroyed them both. I could not bear the way they mocked me.

All books are doors; and some of them are wardrobes.

And the name of the one shall be Fearfulness. And the name of the other shall be Arrogance... Well, clearly you are not Fearfulness, so I suppose you must be Arrogance.' This was not very polite.

The uncomfortable truth seems to be that the amount of talk by women has been measured less against the amount of men's talk than against the expectation of female silence.

I look forward to a life partner who can look after me and respect me.

Yesterday's home runs don't win today's games.

Just to have the opportunity to play an American in America is a dream come true for me.

It is as a soldier that you make love and as a lover that you make war.

In reading some books we occupy ourselves chiefly with the thoughts of the author; in perusing others, exclusively with our own.

I cannot sustain hate for longer than a couple of years.

Scribbling things down is my therapy. I filter later.

Maybe it's that I'm naive, but I don't think of myself as an age.

For me, songwriting is something that I have to do ritually. I don't just wait for inspiration; I try to write a little bit every day.