Wizards are a secretive lot.

Some people are like Slinkies.They aren't really good for anything, but they still bring a smile to my face when I push them down a flight of stairs.

Evil must always be fought.

My will broke at the sound of his voice, and my head turned with as much inevitability as a sunflower turning its face to the sun.

A man says a lot of things in summer he doesn't mean in winter.

The only certainty life contains is death.

It is one of those lessons that every child should learn: Don't play with fire, sharp objects, or ancient artifacts.

When life doesn't meet your expectations, it was important to take it with grace.

If it looks like a hallway, feels like a hallway, and acts like a hallway—is it important to figure out that it isn’t a hallway?

Usually the people I do know are sufficient to spawn any number of nightmares without inventing any.

Anger is stupid, and stupidity will kill you more surely than your opponent's blade.

The power of imagination is the center of all attractions.

A person who loves you through your idiosyncrasies, despite the tiny inclusions, is a diamond worth keeping.

I hate to travel with stuff.

Folk songs in general, I like. The old spooky Scottish folk songs.

Just because people don't meet you doesn't mean they're not out there breaking their asses trying to get around.

The music is all we care about -- so if that's bad, then we're bad.

In fact, I don't even know myself. That is the big secret of the story. That there is no story.

I want to become a very good writer.

Painting is a play of opacities and transparencies.

But it is hard to know them from friends, they are so obsequious and full of protestations; for a wolf resembles a dog, so doth a flatterer a friend.