One day I'll work out what it is you are saying, my lad, and then you'll be in trouble.

Evil begins when you begin to treat people as things.

I should have learned this, she thought. I wanted to learn fire, and pain, but I should have learned people.

I’m a witch. It’s what we do. When it’s nobody else’s business, it’s my business.

Letitia! What a name. Halfway between a salad and a sneeze.

Preston, I don't think this creature could ever find its way into your head. Quite apart from anything else, it seems pretty crowded and complicated to me.

Well, child? Aren't you going to try to turn me into some kind of unspeakable creature?I don't think I shall bother, madam, seeing as you are making such a good job of it yourself!

A stink. A stench. A foulness in her mind, dreadful and unforgiving. A compost of horrible ideas and rotted thoughts that made her want to take our her brain and wash it.

Fire is easy to work with if you keep your mind clear, but pain . . . pain fights back. Pain is alive. Pain is the enemy.

It's witchcraft with all the crusts cut off, and real witchcraft is ALL crusts.

no man is free until he s a master of himself!!

And maybe that’s was her biggest crime of all. Making him fall in love with her.

And now, my poor old woman, why are you crying so bitterly? It is autumn. The leaves are falling from the trees like burning tears- the wind howls. Why must you mimic them?

In that moment, I could not write anything about flowers because I myself had turned into a flower, I myself had a stem and a lymph.

The minute you think you're greater than the music, you're finished

No poem should be an urn to contain a meaning, but a net to catch what meanings float through the day.

You don't have to be a genius when you're surrounded by morons.

I know what it is to hope and pray so hard that you're sure God will answer your prayer just so you'll stop asking.

It was Joseph Smith who taught me how to prize the endearing relationships of father and mother, husband and wife; of brother and sister, son and daughter, mashed potatoes and gravy.

That's all drugs and alcohol do, they cut off your emotions in the end.