Blast Cecil!” said Eldric. “You have my permission,” I said.

It's the picnic principle. Things taste better outdoors. And if it's a forbidden thing, so much the better.

Witches don’t look like anything. Witches are. Witches do.

Even a witch wants sympathy.

Let’s hope she’s like the others, who look only at the surface. Let’s hope she’d never think that a girl with black-velvet eyes and cut-glass cheekbones could be a witch.

Eavesdropping is such a regular-person activity.

If you say a word, it leaps out and becomes the truth. I love you. I believe it. I believe I am loveable. How can something as fragile as a word build a whole world?

I like rain and mist. I've never understood why people exclaim over bright skies and bushels of glaring sunshine.

I don't mean to be ungrateful but if someone's out there answering prayers, mine's not at the top of the list

But witchy magic doesn’t listen to please and pretty please, and anyway, I didn’t really care. I only pretended to care because not caring makes me a monster.

Thoughts are strange creatures. They lead you from one thing to another. Sometimes you don’t know how you got from one to the next.

Yes. She’s correct. We’re not friends. We are lufenes actually. But she’s had an overdose of magic, which has seemingly rendered her empathetically impotent.

Many self-leaders lead the world even by being invisible. The world learns from them without sitting in their classrooms.

Malcolm Gladwell can’t help being a pinhead. He was probably born that way.

I can control my passions and emotions if I can understand their nature

I never hear terrorists say 'Merry Christmas,' only 'Allahu Akbar'.

First in violence, deepest in dirt, lawless, unlovely, ill-smelling, irreverent, new; an overgrown gawk of a - village, the "tough" among cities, a spectacle for the nation.

A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your girdle when your hips stick.

An image has stuck for most of my career and it isn't flattering.

You won't win if you don't begin.

Ordinary thinking and ordinary effort are almost never enough to generate leadership.