Preston, I don't think this creature could ever find its way into your head. Quite apart from anything else, it seems pretty crowded and complicated to me.

Evil begins when you begin to treat people as things.

I should have learned this, she thought. I wanted to learn fire, and pain, but I should have learned people.

I’m a witch. It’s what we do. When it’s nobody else’s business, it’s my business.

Letitia! What a name. Halfway between a salad and a sneeze.

One day I'll work out what it is you are saying, my lad, and then you'll be in trouble.

Well, child? Aren't you going to try to turn me into some kind of unspeakable creature?I don't think I shall bother, madam, seeing as you are making such a good job of it yourself!

A stink. A stench. A foulness in her mind, dreadful and unforgiving. A compost of horrible ideas and rotted thoughts that made her want to take our her brain and wash it.

Fire is easy to work with if you keep your mind clear, but pain . . . pain fights back. Pain is alive. Pain is the enemy.

It's witchcraft with all the crusts cut off, and real witchcraft is ALL crusts.

We all must walk in the Spirit

That’s the thing about jazz: it’s free flowing, it comes from your soul.

A problem is a chance for you to do your best.

Something must happen!

It seems to me that there must be an ecological limit to the number of paper pushers the Earth can sustain.

Because I don't play guitar any more, African harmonies and rhythms have been an inspiration to me. I love the raw origin of the sound. It complements my voice and words naturally.

The person most in control is the person who can give up control.

I work from a personal place, and the work has personal meaning for me.

The Irish are the only men who know how to cry for the dirty polluted blood of all the world.

Weddings are really good for making you feel terrible about yourself if you're not where you want to be in life.