One never learns how the witch became wicked, or whether that was the right choice for her~is it ever the right choice? Does the devil ever struggle to be good again, or if so is he not a devil?

The eye is always caught by light, but shadows have more to say.

As long as people are going to call you lunatic anyway, why not get the benefit of it? It liberates you from convention.

Remember to breathe. It is after all, the secret of life.

From torched skyscrapers, men grew wings.

Where I'm from, we believe in all sorts of things that aren't true... we call it history.

Books fall open, you fall in. When you climb out again, you're a bit larger than you used to be.

If magic was present, it moved under the skin of the world, beneath the ability of human eyes to catch sight of it.

I know you don't want to hear this but someone has to say it! You are out of control! I mean they're just shoes... let it go!

Growth and change were viewed as reactions to conditions met

Waking up was a daily cruelty, an affront, and she avoided it by not sleeping.

The depth of a man is a limit only he can know, should he have the courage to explore into the dark.

God is a lot of things to a lot of people but I don't think He is a cheap party host with limited grace to give out.

With the changing economy, no one has lifetime employment. But community colleges provide lifetime employability.

We know by now how to photograph poor people. What we don't know is how to photograph affluence - whose other face is poverty.

Work is its own best earthly meed, Else have we none more than the sea-born throng Who wrought those marvellous isles that bloom afar.

Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.

My people, you gotta think before you move, you gotta speak before you cry, you gotta live before you die.

I am not a fate worse than death, dammit!

Here's to responsibility," he toasted. "Twice a week." "And recklessness every day in between," I emphasized. He grinned and touched his can to mine.

Poor people either mismanage their money or they avoid the subject of money altogether.