...for a country whose people ceased to believe in magic soon lost much of their ability to imagine and dream, and before long, they ceased to believe--or hope-- for anything.

Once the blinders are off, it's rather hard to go back to seeing things the way you used to.

Sometimes, it seemed, the business of a Witch or a Godmother was not so much using magic as knowing when not to use it.

No man is such a legalist as the good Secularist.

We may not pay Satan reverence for that would be indiscreet but we can at least respect his talents.

We are all born mad. Some remain so.

There are people who will appreciate what I've done, and there will be people who will criticize me. Ultimately history will have the final say.

Tiger the dog had a showdown with a fast moving flower truck in the middle of the street and lost.

Once you stop clinging and let things be, you'll be free, even of birth and death. You'll transform everything.

The country is in tremendous trouble.You know this in North Carolina, because you see what's happening to your jobs, they're disappearing.

Don't fear god, Don't worry about death; What is good is easy to get, and What is terrible is easy to endure

Yeah, that's a luxury to be able to go to a two-hour yoga class! Sometimes I'll just get on the floor and do it for five, ten minutes. Whatever you can get, you just do it.

... how much of our inner substance is it good for us to give to public griefs? The whole modern tendency to agonize over the suffering of the entire globe is surely something new.