My own mask stayed just where it ought. I’ve had lots of practice.

It's the picnic principle. Things taste better outdoors. And if it's a forbidden thing, so much the better.

Witches don’t look like anything. Witches are. Witches do.

Even a witch wants sympathy.

Let’s hope she’s like the others, who look only at the surface. Let’s hope she’d never think that a girl with black-velvet eyes and cut-glass cheekbones could be a witch.

Eavesdropping is such a regular-person activity.

If you say a word, it leaps out and becomes the truth. I love you. I believe it. I believe I am loveable. How can something as fragile as a word build a whole world?

I like rain and mist. I've never understood why people exclaim over bright skies and bushels of glaring sunshine.

I don't mean to be ungrateful but if someone's out there answering prayers, mine's not at the top of the list

But witchy magic doesn’t listen to please and pretty please, and anyway, I didn’t really care. I only pretended to care because not caring makes me a monster.

Thoughts are strange creatures. They lead you from one thing to another. Sometimes you don’t know how you got from one to the next.

The most formidable adversary of evil is a persistent man with a loud conscience.

I've never thought of myself as an actor, so somebody recognizing me for that would be a real shock.

Our seminaries today are turning out dead men.

Knowledge Qf history frees us to be contemporary.

I find it so much easier to be creatively free at night. Daytime is for sleeping. Nighttime is the best time for making art. The later at night it gets the further into another world you go.

In the end we're all searching for our home, that one place where we belong.

The research. It is always the best part of writing. And, of course, it is the great excuse to travel.

On conducting: If you can just barely hear the French horns on stage, the balance is perfect.

Yet one more item is needed to complete success, and that is the rendering of service to others in the community. Without this the mere satisfaction of selfish desire does not reach the top notch.

A miniskirt shows just enough to cause some mystery. What these young women lack is mystery so the old women have to have it.