Where there is a Key, there is yet hope.

Death is not a checkmate…it is more like a carnival trick. You cannot win, no matter how you move your Queen.

Do not ruin today with mourning tomorrow.

Hats have power. Hats can change you into someone else.

We all live inside the terrible engine of authority, and it grinds and shrieks and burns so that no one will say: lines on maps are silly.

That’s what happens to friends, eventually. They leave you. It’s practically what they’re for.

It is well known that reading quickens the growth of a heart like nothing else.

She sounds like someone who spends a lot of time in libraries, which are the best sorts of people.

When the world changes, it stashes us away where we can't make it run the other way again.

So most people go around with grimy machinery, when all it would take is a bit of spit and polish to make them paladins once more, bold knights and true.

It is true that novelists are shameless and obey no decent law, and they are not to be trusted on any account, but some Mysteries even they must honor.

There is music you never hear unless you play it yourself.

The farther you venture into the forest the more valuable the fruit.

As a general rule, in the world of magic, the most successful magician is the one who has enough patience to keep the secrets of his original magic effects.

Human willingness to believe precedes their ability to think.

If we were logical the future would be bleak indeed. But we are more than logical. We are human beings and we have faith and we have hope and we can work.

Hope ... is not a feeling it is something you do.

Everyone has egos, and you want to come out on top. You have to pick yourself up and go at it again.

Happiness doesn't necessarily lie in material things. You just have to put yourself in a position to be happy. If you can do what you love for a living, that's a good start.

The choice before us is plain: Christ or chaos, conviction or compromise, discipline or disintegration.

In a sense, sexuality is the built-in psychedelic experience that only a very few people manage to evade.