In the dark attics of our minds, all times mingle.

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.

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.

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.

There is no hatred as corrupting as intellectual hatred.

Gee, I am a complete Luddite when it comes to computers, I can barely log on!

If a girl is smiling and is bringing positive energy and she's happy, that's what I notice right away - and her teeth.

Porsche is a driver's car - a performance car. That was funny - here's this awesome car, but it's got no cup holders.

No studio in Hollywood wanted 'Cold Mountain.' None. No one wanted 'Ripley,' no one wanted 'The English Patient.' That tells you there isn't really an appetite for ambitious movie-making out there.

If you do not expect the unexpected, you will not recognize it when it arrives.

Nothing would please me more, but who else would pump the oil that we need? God damn America.

England, an old and exhausted island, must one day be contented, like other parents, to be strong only in her children.

Most naughtiness arises because the children are bored and lack a relationship with the teacher.

One can never study nature too much and too hard