Death and what came after death was no great mystery to Sabriel. She just wished it was.

Fear and realisation of ignorance, strong medicines against stupid pride.

Does the walker choose the path, or the path the walker?

The Clayr saw me, the Wallmaker made me, the King quenched me, the Abhorsen wields me so that no Dead shall walk in Life. For this is not their path.

I can see time, " whispered Mogget, so softly that his words were lost.

Our parts now -- which perforce we must play -- are not father and daughter, but one old Abhorsen, making way for the new. But behind this, there is always my love.

A breath?" she asked. She didn't want to kiss just any wooden man. He looked nice enough, but he might not be like his looks. A kiss seemed very forward. He might remember it, and make assumptions.

We're deaf men working as musicians

Walter Mondale once said God has no place in American politics and it turned out that God felt the same way about Walter Mondale.

You live your life between your ears.

I have the best job in the world. There's not really a lot to moan or whine about. I've got the privilege of going out and doing something I absolutely love.

Set peace of mind as your highest goal, and organize your life around it.

Big machines are the awe-inspiring cathedrals of the 20th century.

When the world is destroyed, it will be destroyed not by its madmen but by the sanity of its experts and the superior ignorance of its bureaucrats.

[We] assume that social progress is like technological progress: one cannot uninvent the internal combustion engine, so how could one uninvent liberty?

Observation, reason, and experiment make up what we call the scientific method.

I get inspired when I look at Tom Lennon, who did Reno 911! for six seasons while writing huge movies and directing, and also doing other pilots; he did that FX pilot, the Star Trek thing.