If I were omnipotent and omnibenevolent I wouldn't be so damn ineffable.

It doesn't matter. I have books, new books, and I can bear anything as long as there are books.

Interlibrary loans are a wonder of the world and a glory of civilization.

If you love books enough, books will love you back.

I care more about the people in books than the people I see every day.

You can't do magic with books unless they're very special copies.

One of the things I've always liked about science fiction is the way it makes you think about things, and look at things from angles you'd never have thought about before.

magic can make things happen before you do it. It can make things have happened.

You can never be sure where you are with magic.

I wish magic was more dramatic

Magic isn’t inherently evil. But it does seem to be terribly bad for people.

Failure brings success to those who don’t quit.

Here in this place all souls resonate within a holy vibration.

There's one good thing about a mistake. As long as you're alive, you still have time to fix it.

I have had my fill of words and tearful farewells.

And as a result of the United States military, Taliban no longer is in existence.

Having this interest here in the Redskins is the chief hobby of my life.

The question is not if we are going to die or not, but how are we going to live.

The neurotic's strongest fantasy is that he has no fantasies. The real is very real to him, the unreal even more so.

I think that acting can be a very pressurized existence. So when I'm not working, I spend very loose and unpressurized time and I like to meet people who have a similar attitude.

Scientists are stuck in this belief that we tell people probabilities, not absolute answers.