The best artists know what to leave out. They know how much of the support should show through as the pigment is applied, what details aren't necessary.

Witchery is merely a word for what we are all capable of.

It's all a matter of paying attention, being awake in the present moment, and not expecting a huge payoff. The magic in this world seems to work in whispers and small kindnesses.

It's all those stories and how they braid together that tells us who and what and where we are

You've got to find yourself first. Everything else'll follow.

Stone walls confine a tinker; cold iron binds a witch; but a musician's music can never be fettered, for it lives first in her heart and mind.

Fortune-telling doesn't reveal the future; it mirrors the present. It resonates against what your subconscious already knows and hauls it up out of the darkness so you can get a good look at it.

I'm not Chinese. I thrive in interesting times.

Don't forget - no one else sees the world the way you do, so no one else can tell the stories that you have to tell.

There's bad apples in whatever way you want to group people - doesn't matter if it's religious, political or social. The big mistake is generalizing.

Magic lies in between things, between the day and the night, between yellow and blue, between any two things.

Leave the company of the people who are given you empty promises

A closed heart is the most self limiting factor in life. Start to listen to your heartfelt desires.

Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.

There is not a good or a bad cuisine, just the one you like the best.

A scientist should be the happiest of men.

Kindness is the velvet of social intercourse.

Live as though only God and yourself were in this world, so that your heart may not be detained by anything human.

I need to be alone for certain periods of time or I violate my own rhythm.

I know there were many good policemen who died doing their duty. Some of the cops were even friends of ours. But a cop can go both ways.

You cannot change the world if you don't change your own world first.