Storytelling can save you. Both the telling and the listening.

You should always listen to minotaurs. Anybody with four stomachs has to have a firm grip on reality.

All jobs are odd, or they would be games or naps or picnics.

It's a dreadful world with only your own heart to drive you.

But the trick most folk are so awfully fond of learning, the absolute second they've got hold of a heart, is to pretend they don't have one at all. It is the very first danger of the hearted.

you have to have the right sort of stone. Peridot for mothers, girasol for lovers, sapphire for sadness, and garnet for joy.

You can't trust just any old person who comes along with a hundred puffins and a pretty face!

Everyone has their invisible cloak of all things past.

That is the trouble with standing up to people, of course. Once you start doing it, you can hardly stop.

All Librarians are Secret Masters of Severe Magic. Goes with the territory.

A Bank is but a college of Fiscal Magic.

He was one of those rare men who are capable of being fully in love only once in their lives.

Why take drugs specifically designed to send you insane?

Dance music is like a virus, it has affected so many different genres.

Robert Rotenberg does for Toronto what Ian Rankin does for Edinburgh.

Any actor who is being honest will admit there's always a small or large part of the real you in every character. It's impossible not to have that.

Democracy, disciplined and enlightened, is the finest thing in the world.

You don't reason with intellectuals. You shoot them.

We must understand that in order 'to do', we must first learn 'to be', that is to say, in the sweet company of Jesus in adoration.

I'm all about job creation. That's what I've done for ten years as the governor of Texas, and that's what I'm focused on.

It is a happy art to know when one has said enough. I would leave my hearers wishing me to say more rather than give them cause toshow, by their inattention, that I had said too much.