...that witchcraft requires no potions, familiar spirits, or magic wands. Language upon a silver tongue affords enchantment enough.

All true believers have good reasons for disbelieving in every god except their own, ' said Birbal, 'and so it is they who, between them, give me all the reasons for believing in none.

This may be the curse of the human race, not that we are so different from one another, but that we are so alike.

A race that rejected the idea of personal sacrifice would surely be erased from time's records before long.

So, basically, I have the impossible task of finding a non-smelly, drug-free virgin?

If you want to slow medical inflation in the private sector, it makes sense to expand the government's investment in private health care.

I expect at some point I'll probably want to go back on stage and do some theater, because I've not done theater in 10 years.

No matter how hard you hug your money, it never hugs back.

If we only listened with the same passion that we feel about being heard.

When we are truly passionate about something we are contagious.

And so in my mind's eye these coastal forms merge and blend in a shifting, kaleidoscopic pattern in which there is no finality, no ultimate and fixed reality - earth becoming fluid as the sea itself.

I would rather die a thousand deaths than surrender.

Clutch the bramble and you will be pricked.

In thigh-high yellow leather boots Plump Saphonisba strides. Too bad that, just to hide her calves, Two calves have lost their hides.