Books and music saved me as a teenager because it was through them that I realized that I wasn't alone in my obsessive love for words and music.

Witchery is merely a word for what we are all capable of.

It's all a matter of paying attention, being awake in the present moment, and not expecting a huge payoff. The magic in this world seems to work in whispers and small kindnesses.

It's all those stories and how they braid together that tells us who and what and where we are

You've got to find yourself first. Everything else'll follow.

Stone walls confine a tinker; cold iron binds a witch; but a musician's music can never be fettered, for it lives first in her heart and mind.

Fortune-telling doesn't reveal the future; it mirrors the present. It resonates against what your subconscious already knows and hauls it up out of the darkness so you can get a good look at it.

I'm not Chinese. I thrive in interesting times.

Don't forget - no one else sees the world the way you do, so no one else can tell the stories that you have to tell.

There's bad apples in whatever way you want to group people - doesn't matter if it's religious, political or social. The big mistake is generalizing.

Magic lies in between things, between the day and the night, between yellow and blue, between any two things.

It's helpful to remember that God doesn't belong to Christians, Jews, Muslims or anyone. We belong to God, not the other way around.

i'm not a dreamerI Just believe in Allah (God)

No one you'd really like to see in public office has the bad taste to run.

Ve haf vays of making you gif us your DNA sample.

You may admire a girl's curves on the first introduction, but the second meeting shows up new angles.

You're never going to kill storytelling, because it's built into the human plan. We come with it.

True Christianity is to manifest genuinely Christ-like behavior by dependence on the working of the Spirit of God within.

Economists did something even better than predict the crisis. We correctly predicted that we would not be able to predict it.

Gentlemen, I have a confession to make. Half of what we have taught you is in error, and furthermore we cannot tell you which half it is