T.H. moved through the forest like the melody of a well-known song, in perfect harmony with his surroundings.

Witchery is merely a word for what we are all capable of.

It's all a matter of paying attention, being awake in the present moment, and not expecting a huge payoff. The magic in this world seems to work in whispers and small kindnesses.

It's all those stories and how they braid together that tells us who and what and where we are

You've got to find yourself first. Everything else'll follow.

Stone walls confine a tinker; cold iron binds a witch; but a musician's music can never be fettered, for it lives first in her heart and mind.

Fortune-telling doesn't reveal the future; it mirrors the present. It resonates against what your subconscious already knows and hauls it up out of the darkness so you can get a good look at it.

I'm not Chinese. I thrive in interesting times.

Don't forget - no one else sees the world the way you do, so no one else can tell the stories that you have to tell.

There's bad apples in whatever way you want to group people - doesn't matter if it's religious, political or social. The big mistake is generalizing.

Magic lies in between things, between the day and the night, between yellow and blue, between any two things.

The uninitiated might say that I am lost in my books, but I know I am more found than lost.

I shall show that the place does not honor the man, but the man the place.

Let it die. Let there be a new beginning. It’s awful. Goodnight.

What you need is a fundamental humility - the belief that you can learn from anyone.

History and geology show what an eyeblink it's been since our current, comfortable culture came about. And yet that culture is using up absolutely everything at a ferocious rate.

Of all the virtues necessary to the completion of the perfect man, there is none to be more delicately implied and less ostentatiously vaunted than that of exquisite feeling or universal benevolence.

There can be no permanent disfranchised peasantry in the United States.

It gets better and better being me.

Movies in general are more generic. If something sells just make more. That's Hollywood.

The most important thing in life is not to capitalize on your successes-any fool can do that. The really important thing is to profit from your mistakes.