Should you fail to pilot your own ship, don't be surprised at what inappropriate port you find yourself docked.

Reality whistles a different tune underwater.

We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.

Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.

Religion is not merely the opium of the masses, it's the cyanide.

In the haunted house of life, art is the only stair that doesn't creak.

The beet is the most intense of vegetables

Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.

It is better to be small, colorful, sexy, careless, and peaceful.

To achieve the impossible; it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.

We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from ourselves.

Thanks. Seriously, you must have better things to do with your life than waste it on the hopeless?''I've already learned Parseltongue. What else is there?''Elvish.

Science fiction makes the implausible possible, while science fantasy makes the impossible plausible.

Never shame your comrades by letting their death get you killed

I don't think it matters how many parents you've got, so long as the ones who are around make their presence in a long way.

I'm really open to doing music. We just have to figure out what kind of music it's going to be - something where I don't feel compromised.

Not a lot of people have jobs that they're really comfortable with, but I'm one of those people. I feel like I'm the luckiest girl on earth, and that's such a lovely feeling.

The mind gets distracted in all sorts of ways. The heart is its own exclusive concern and diversion.

There is no Pleasure like that of receiving Praise from the Praiseworthy

When you can answer questions about what you think and when you can explain why you think what you think, that's power, it's comforting power.

Without the smile from partial beauty won, O what were man? - a world without a sun.