Being Necessary is food no less than cabbages and strawberry pies.

You should always listen to minotaurs. Anybody with four stomachs has to have a firm grip on reality.

All jobs are odd, or they would be games or naps or picnics.

It's a dreadful world with only your own heart to drive you.

But the trick most folk are so awfully fond of learning, the absolute second they've got hold of a heart, is to pretend they don't have one at all. It is the very first danger of the hearted.

you have to have the right sort of stone. Peridot for mothers, girasol for lovers, sapphire for sadness, and garnet for joy.

You can't trust just any old person who comes along with a hundred puffins and a pretty face!

Everyone has their invisible cloak of all things past.

That is the trouble with standing up to people, of course. Once you start doing it, you can hardly stop.

All Librarians are Secret Masters of Severe Magic. Goes with the territory.

A Bank is but a college of Fiscal Magic.

The New Your energy goes beyond anything you'll find anywhere else. It's too much for some people and it grinds them down, but it lifts up and animates the rest of us.

Computers are idiots whose only virtue is that they can count up to two extremely fast.

Man is a perpetually wanting animal.

I'm with a man who's evolved enough to look at my body and see it as more beautiful because of the journey it has taken.

I've kind of shut myself off to a lot of new music because I don't want to be influenced by it.

The song I like to do is 'Dead.' I'm constantly playing that one.

Because of what I did when I was 10 years old, I'm not living from paycheck to paycheck, and I can do things because I want to do them.

Research and writing are lonely occupations. It is easy to become discouraged in solitary confinement.

Moreover, resolving the mother of all problems - the Israeli-Palestinian question - requires cooperation between Europe and the U.S.

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