The past scampers like an alley cat through the present, leaving the paw prints of memories scattered helter-skelter.

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.

Confession is good for the soul, they say. I'd imagine this is true. But my sins were too convoluted. And from the little I understand--too damning.

Also I didn't habe 20/20 vision whch you needed to be a pilot. But I said you could still want something that is very unlikely to happen.

I know a lot of people think I'm dumb. Well, at least I ain't no educated fool.

Nothing in nature is by chance... Something appears to be chance only because of our lack of knowledge.

Revival is a renewed conviction of sin and repentance, followed by an intense desire to live in obedience to God. It is giving up one's will to God in deep humility.

Most of what I listen to now is mainstream jazz from 1935 right up to and including early bebop and cool jazz.

Because of the time we're in, it's so easy to just blend all of it together and it's kind of like you're listening to everything all at once.

The story is the first thing and the last thing.

The trouble with children is that they're not returnable.

But what first motivated me wasn't anything I read. I just got mad seeing the machines ripping up the woods.