When you're writing, you're creating something out of nothing ... A successful piece of writing is like doing a successful piece of magic.", 6 March 2012]

Sing like no one is listening. Love like you’ve never been hurt. Dance like nobody’s watching, and live like it’s heaven on earth.

She wore a gown the color of storms, shadows, and rain and a necklace of broken promises and regrets.

Can a magician kill a man by magic?” Lord Wellington asked Strange. Strange frowned. He seemed to dislike the question. “I suppose a magician might,” he admitted, “but a gentleman never would.

He understood for the first time that the world is not dumb at all, but merely waiting for someone to speak to it in a language it understands.

There must come a time when the bullets will run out

I know magicians and I know magic and I say this: all magicians lie and this one more than most.

I was told once by some country people that a magician should never tell his dreams because the telling will make them come true. But I say that is great nonsense.

Time and I have quarrelled. All hours are midnight now. I had a clock and a watch, but I destroyed them both. I could not bear the way they mocked me.

All books are doors; and some of them are wardrobes.

And the name of the one shall be Fearfulness. And the name of the other shall be Arrogance... Well, clearly you are not Fearfulness, so I suppose you must be Arrogance.' This was not very polite.

Maybe if I forgot things once in a while, we'd all be a little bit happier.

One rash person in the right place and earth could be a sterile cinder in seconds, but that's been more-or-less true for a century.

We all make mistakes, but it is those that learn from them that rise to the top.

Failure is enriching. It's also important to accept that you'll make mistakes - it's how you build your expertise. The trick is to learn a positive lesson from all of life's negative moments.

Whatever a man imagines he can attain, if he doesn't become too arrogant and encroach on the rights of the gods.

The education of young people in science is at least as important, maybe more so, than the research itself.

Immature ists imitate. Mature ists steal.

I do seem to have a bit of a predilection for movies that say something transgressive.

It's more important to do the right thing than to do things right.

Late night writing is also good, too, but in New York, you've got neighbors. I try to be a good neighbor.