It's a dreadful world with only your own heart to drive you.

You should always listen to minotaurs. Anybody with four stomachs has to have a firm grip on reality.

All jobs are odd, or they would be games or naps or picnics.

But the trick most folk are so awfully fond of learning, the absolute second they've got hold of a heart, is to pretend they don't have one at all. It is the very first danger of the hearted.

you have to have the right sort of stone. Peridot for mothers, girasol for lovers, sapphire for sadness, and garnet for joy.

You can't trust just any old person who comes along with a hundred puffins and a pretty face!

Everyone has their invisible cloak of all things past.

That is the trouble with standing up to people, of course. Once you start doing it, you can hardly stop.

All Librarians are Secret Masters of Severe Magic. Goes with the territory.

A Bank is but a college of Fiscal Magic.

Music has more rules than math or magic and it's twice as dangerous as both or either.

Cause channeled in the wrong direction is indistinguishable from handcap

As academia became my identity, my fascination with firefighters became buried and, seemingly, died.

To still your mind, first still your tongue.

There are no mistakes in art.

Physics is really nothing more than a search for ultimate simplicity, but so far all we have is a kind of elegant messiness.

Each shooting day is a big challenge, but it's also fun.

[When I happen to] read interviews where people are such pros and they come out looking so good, [it comes off as] a little smug or something.

We've become a nation of wolves, ruled by sheep. Owned by swine, overfed, and put to sleep. While the media elite declare what to think, I'll be wide awake, on the edge, and on the brink.

People can think whatever they think, but that's my strength to go forward.

Legends are often destroyed by those in need of its stuff.