To me there's no difference between writing YA and adult except that in YA I make the book a little shorter and the protagonists are teens. The difference is in the readers.

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.

When we think of the past it's the beautiful things we pick out. We want to believe it was all like that.

If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am not for others, what am I? And if not now, when?

They bright whiten all this sepulchre with powdered chloride of lime. It's a perfectly sanitary war.

I don't like to read things that people write about me. I'd rather read what kids have to say about me, because it's not their profession to do that.

If you hang around long enough to show these people what you can do, you have a chance in this acting business.

Record labels have enjoyed a 100-year monopoly of selling plastic and now they're up against a different format.

when a great war has cut off the young men of a nation it never can be told thereafter what losses of scholars, poets, thinkers and great designers the country and the world have suffered.

I was really, really wild in my early twenties and a bit self-destructive.

The monuments of the nations are all protests against nothingness after death; so are statues and inscriptions; so is history.

You can express love by calling out the truth out of the situation as opposed to dancing around it.