That's Third Thoughts for you. When a huge rock is going to land on your head, they're the thoughts that think: Is that an igneous rock, such as granite, or is it sandstone?

I’m not superstitious. I’m a witch. Witches aren’t superstitious. We are what people are superstitious of.

This I choose to do. If there is a price, this I choose to pay. If it is my death, then I choose to die. Where this takes me, there I choose to go. I choose. This I choose to do.

The trouble is you can shut your eyes but you can’t shut your mind.

And, as always happens, and happens far too soon, the strange and wonderful becomes a memory and a memory becomes a dream. Tomorrow it's gone.

Your own brain ought to have the decency to be on your side!

A witch ought never to be frightened in the darkest forest, Granny Weatherwax had once told her, because she should be sure in her soul that the most terrifying thing in the forest was her.

Yes, she'd made a mistake... but she wasn't going to be bullied. You couldn't let boys go around raining on your lava and ogling other people's watercolors.

Living this long's not as wonderful as people think. I mean, you get the same amount of youth as everyone else, but a great big extra helping of being very old and deaf and creaky.

You couldn't escape the pointy hat, though. There was nothing magical about a pointy hat except that it said that the woman underneath it was a witch. People paid attention to a pointy hat.

Gossiping's part of witchcraft, ' said Tiffany. 'They're checking to see if they've gone batty yet.

This, the language of deception, we both understand. We were born to it, along with the curses.

Bonding through caregiving..I don't think I'd ever realized until then that so much affection, so much heart connect, happens when we take care of someone.

Russell joined the team in December, 1956, following the Olympics.

Courtney Love is really cool and funny. I would like to meet Julia Roberts and Cameron Diaz. I think I could play their daughters.

Where are the links of the chain ... joining us to the past?

I feel that any man that tries, any man that comes out with something we like, is a good man. A man doesn't have to be Leonardo Da Vinci to be sincere.

Estuaries are coastal bays, harbors, sounds and lagoons, places where rivers meet the sea.

The greatest responsibility in this world that God has laid upon us is to seek after our dead.

My daily surroundings feed my work, whether it's something I'm working on right now or it's something down the road.

Anyone who knows me knows that I'm way more of a joker than I am a serious person.