Is the spring coming?" he said. "What is it like?"..."It is the sun shining on the rain and the rain falling on the sunshine...

If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.

Two worst things as can happen to a child is never to have his own way - or always to have it.

I am sure there is Magic in everything, only we have not sense enough to get hold of it and make it do things for us

My mother always says people should be able to take care of themselves, even if they're rich and important.

Of course there must be lots of Magic in the world, but people don't know what it is like or how to make it.

You can lose a friend in springtime easier than any other season if you're too curious.

Thoughts -- just mere thoughts -- are as powerful as electric batteries -- as good for one as sunlight is, or as bad for one as poison.

They're a pair of young Satans.

I am sure there is Magic in everything, only we have not sence enough to get hold of it and make it do things for us - like electricity and horses and steam.

You said th' Magic was in my back. Th' doctor calls it rheumatics.

If you can't run, you crawl. If you can't crawl-- you find someone to carry you.

Books open a realm to a world beyond our own, all one has to do is take a leap of faith, open one, and step through the gate, passed the veil of myth on into the unknown.

Kaoru: Grownups are so tiresome. They fake their smiles all day long and they try to force us to do the same. It's no fun at all.

If September 11th has taught us anything, it's certainly that the world has never been so interdependent. It is impossible now to be an island of prosperity in a sea of despair.

Third parties in America gravitate not only to the extremes, but to irrelevance. (John Anderson's upcoming presidential campaign will undoubtedly confirm both tendencies.)

I am, as they say, the classic starving artist.

I don't feel anything right now. I am just preparing, that's it.

I am not romantic, you know; I never was.

I worked at a Sport Chek in Vancouver, only so I could get the discount off snowboard gear. But I hated the job so much, I quit before I got my discount.

I live on the limit, Vyvyan. The limit, because I'm a rider at the gates of dawn and I take no prisoners!