[Puggles] "What population signs on willingly for slavery?" "You mean other than wives?" [Glinda]

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.

I must see new things and investigate them. I want to taste dark water and see crackling trees and wild winds.

I think the people who would be the least interested in my work would be people who read lots of comic books.

You might belong in Hufflepuff, Where they are just and loyal, Those patient Hufflepuffs are true, And unafraid of toil.

All the fatt's in the fire.

We are this divine energy. It's not something we have to attain. We just have to realize it, to be present to it.

More socialism means more democracy, openness and collectivism in everyday life.

Comedies of manners swiftly become obsolete when there are no longer any manners.

Comedy is tragedy revisited or hostility. It is mock hostility, of course, or it would be ugly; we would have a war.

We read books to find out who we are.

[Jack] Kerouac was writing fiction. What he did when he wrote about me...he made me out with Russian Countesses and Swiss accounts and other things I didn't have or didn't happen and so on.