People think me a sort of Florence Nightingale, but I have no heroic qualities. I simply don’t feel very much.

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.

Historically, Alaska is a place that has attracted those fed up with conventionality.

I have played some of the great men in history and I believe in the great man who does heroic deeds, even in these egalitarian times.

There are a lot of great players... a lot of great players around, but Louie Bellson is really something special.

I would rather die on my feet than continue living on my knees.

I will move gently down the stream of life until I sleep with my fathers.

The Charkha in the hands of a poor widow brings a paltry price to her, in the hands of Jawaharlal; it is an instrument of India's freedom.

There's no one out there like Quentin Tarantino. His films have a signature look, and they never just stick to the same kind of story.

Integrity is better capital than money. You can accumulate it just like money, and you can use it just like money, but it goes further, and is enduring.

I want to see an end to sovereign risk questions over Australia.

Distance is the only cure for certain diseases.