If you listen to dogs barking you will go deaf without learning anything.

A priestess of Avalon does not lie. But I am cast out of Avalon, and for this, and unless it is all to be for nothing, I must lie, and lie well and quickly

To know you are ignorant is the beginning of wisdom.

The Goddess does not shower her gifts on those who reject them.

Beware what you speak,' said the Merlin very softly, 'for indeed the words we speak make shadows of what is to come, and by speaking them we bring them to pass, my king.

Love is the only prayer I know.

I have called on the Goddess and found her within myself

There are ignorant priests and ignorant people, who are all too ready to cry sorcery if a woman is only a little wiser than they are!

The road that is built in hope is more pleasant to the traveler than the road built in despair, even though they both lead to the same destination.

A friend of ours has a hobby doing genealogy, and we found out that we were cousins in the ninth degree, that we had a common ancestor on the Mayflower.

Magic is a matter of focusing the disciplined will. But sometimes the will must be abandoned. The secret lies in knowing when to exercise control, and when to let go.

Know what the best thing your true love can give you is?” I asked him.“What?” said Dash.“True love.

Illusions of grandeur are not the same as visions of greatness.

Today, much of journalism and politics are in a kind of collusion to oversimplify and personalize issues. No room for ambivalence. Plenty of room for the personal attack.

There are times when we have had enough even of our Friends.

The idea of writer as sage is pretty much dead today. I would certainly feel very uncomfortable in the role.

You're not going to change anyone's mind. Especially online.

Marriage is a land mine. A really intimate land mine. Adultery to kitchen fires. Never a dull [moment].

Traditions are neither good nor bad, they simply are... Rationality is not an arbiter of traditions, it is itself a tradition or an aspect of a tradition.

Mayor Koch, of New York, was the first public figure to give me support.

You can be whoever you want to be, you just have to want it bad enough.