Time is no one's friend--time has no social niceties and holds the door for nobody nowhere. But I hold the door for time, with my one good paw.

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.

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

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

A Bank is but a college of Fiscal Magic.

The greatest battles of life are fought out daily in the silent chambers of the soul.

I thought that when I spilled one secret, the rest would come tumbling after, but openness is a habit you form over time, and not a switch you flip whenever you want to, I'm finding.

As a bankrupt thief turns thief-taker in despair so an unsuccessful author turns critic.

How we absorb music is unique. I know what I do. When I'm listening to music, I tend to find myself in a song. That's what really makes you connect is if you feel what that song is saying.

The world doesn't just revolve around you. There's a lot of talk in this country about the federal deficit. But I think we should talk more about our empathy deficit.

I love to go bungee jumping, jump out of planes, ride motorbikes, do kickboxing. I love all that stuff.

Performing doesn't turn me on. It's an egomaniac business, filled with prima donnas - including this one.

We need a regime change in this country.... If we launch a pre-emptive strike on Iraq we lose all moral authority.

...there is no substantive basis for predictions of sizeable global warming due to observed increases in minor greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide, methane and chlorofluorocarbons.

And if California slides into the ocean, as the mystics and statistics say it will, I predict this hotel will be standing until I've paid my bill.