You're in America now, " I said. "Our idea of diplomacy is showing up with a gun in one hand and a sandwich in the other and asking which you'd prefer.

The human mind is not a terribly logical or consistent place.

I love being a wizard. Every day is like Disneyland.

Like “love, ” “hope” is one of those ridiculously disproportional words that by all rights should be a lot longer.

As far as the Council is concerned, the U.S. Wardens are a bunch of mushrooms.""Eh?""Kept in the dark and fed on bullshit.

They are stupid, they are beasts, they are meat, they are death. I am talking simply but without any affectation.

You can woo a girl with a poem, but you can't hold onto her with a poem. Not even with a poetry movement.

Hate hates what it mirrors or envies.

The best advice is not to write what you know, it's to write what you like.

To give Tinker Bell a voice for the first time in history is such an honor.

Machines are the opium of the masses. If all the machines in England were thrown into the North Sea tomorrow, we should be back in the Garden of Eden. And the weather would probably improve.

Maturity is the ability to reap without apology and not complain when things don't go well.

Wisdom is dead. Long live information.

I was never a prisoner to my footballing status.

So often the end of a love affair is death by a thousand cuts, so often its survival is life by a thousand stitches.