I think magic is hard for most people to believe in, because our lives are typically without it. Sometimes the supernatural is disguised behind other things like bravery.

It was a glorious illusion and she fell asleep before it ended.

You are never too old to have an active imagination.

We have overcome heartaches by being kind to others and by supporting each other.

... but in the winter they were ensconced in a white powder of sparkling snow.

In the winter, the snow had become glittery fairy dust that had given all the creatures of the meadow warm clothes and a fire to help them endure the winter.

Elle wondered if heart could smile, because she felt that her joy reached her inner being.

She didn't use any artificial light, but let the glow from the silver moon in the north and the periwinkle moon in the south to guide her.

The air had a cool crispness to it and the leaves on the trees had begun turning yellow and red.

Time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life.

It was duck apocalypse!

We don't plan funerals till the body is dead.

There's plenty of room for humor in politics, God knows, but it's a serious business.

All these years I've sat in airports and kind of drawn people and put like Far Side captions on them.

A man can be prevented from breaking into other persons' houses by shutting him up, but shutting him up may not alter his disposition to commit burglary.

Of all the things that oppress me, this sense of the evil working of nature herself -my disgust at her barbarity -clumsiness -darkness -bitter mockery of herself -is the most desolating.

I'm an old guy. I've been doing this a long time. And I don't hustle and I don't bustle. I have seen the people who hustle and bustle, and they are already gone, at a young age.

Apart from a very close circle of friends, few people know my true self, and it's normal, I never put it into my music.

Harmony with nature will bring you a happiness known to few city dwellers. In the company of other truth seekers it will be easier for you to meditate and think of God.