That is the trouble with standing up to people, of course. Once you start doing it, you can hardly stop.

You should always listen to minotaurs. Anybody with four stomachs has to have a firm grip on reality.

All jobs are odd, or they would be games or naps or picnics.

It's a dreadful world with only your own heart to drive you.

But the trick most folk are so awfully fond of learning, the absolute second they've got hold of a heart, is to pretend they don't have one at all. It is the very first danger of the hearted.

you have to have the right sort of stone. Peridot for mothers, girasol for lovers, sapphire for sadness, and garnet for joy.

You can't trust just any old person who comes along with a hundred puffins and a pretty face!

Everyone has their invisible cloak of all things past.

All Librarians are Secret Masters of Severe Magic. Goes with the territory.

A Bank is but a college of Fiscal Magic.

Music has more rules than math or magic and it's twice as dangerous as both or either.

In my perception, the world wasn't a graph or formula or an equation. It was a story.

The Bibbidi Bobbidi Beautiful boutique, the name filled me with dread.

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure.

He who endures penance and hardships for another delights in that person's company.

Regression in grief must be seen and supported as a means toward adaptation and health.

I love America, and I love American women. But there is one thing that deeply shocks me - American closets. I cannot believe one can dress well when you have so much.

Twitter has been my life's work in many senses. It started with a fascination with cities and how they work, and what's going on in them right now.

Openness to my own dreams puts me in touch with the oldest, most human aspects of who I am; it helps me find my place in the community of man.

To be able to see into a friends' dream is a dream in itself. -Doctor Kōsaku Tokita (Paprika)