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

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.

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

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.

Pull the hair on my head the wrong way, and I would be on my knees begging for mercy. I have very sensitive follicles.

You can never know enough about your characters

Until it has scared you with its endlessness, sky is just sky.

What's missing is the eyeballs in each of us, but it doesn't matter because you've got the bucks, the bucks, the bucks.

But I have told the truth. Isn't that ironic? They sent me because I am so good at telling lies. But I have told the truth.

Anyone who thinks they can save the world is both wrong and dangerous

I have always believed that my job is to try and give my best on the tennis courts.

I have never seen myself as leading for others. What's important is that I know who I am. Not completely. But I'm coming around third base.

Steve Jobs had very strong feelings about what makes a company great, what makes products great. He more or less chose Tim Cook to be in that role, in that position.

It's not that I wanted to be an actor; it's that I didn't want to be a dancer! I was trained in traditional Chinese dance, and after working so hard it seemed unfair to just disappear into a group.