The excitement I get from writing is finding out each day what happens next.

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.

The best kind of day is a writing day

Tell me the direction of your thoughts and I will tell you the direction of your life!

And then, just as quickly, the clouds returned, leaving us to walk by faith, not by sight.

Donald Trump can't come up with a hairstyle that looks human, how can he come up with a plan to defeat ISIS.

After a rest in Edinburgh, where, passing a music-shop, I heard some blind man playing a mazurka of mine.

Art is in itself noble; that is why the artist has no fear of what is common. This, indeed, is already ennobled when he takes it up.

What's important now? - To evaluate the past, focus on the future, and tell you what you have to do in the present

Looking for the meaning of life, one man can discover the order of the universe. To discover the truth, to achieve. a higher spiritual state, that is the true meaning of ninja.

One of the nicest things about NBC is that Tom Brokaw is not Dan Rather.

Love and death are the great gifts that are given to us; mostly they are passed on unopened.