You can almost always find chains of coincidence to disprove magic. That's because it doesn't happen the way it does in books. It makes those chains of coincidence. That's what it is.

It doesn't matter. I have books, new books, and I can bear anything as long as there are books.

Interlibrary loans are a wonder of the world and a glory of civilization.

If I were omnipotent and omnibenevolent I wouldn't be so damn ineffable.

If you love books enough, books will love you back.

I care more about the people in books than the people I see every day.

You can't do magic with books unless they're very special copies.

One of the things I've always liked about science fiction is the way it makes you think about things, and look at things from angles you'd never have thought about before.

magic can make things happen before you do it. It can make things have happened.

You can never be sure where you are with magic.

I wish magic was more dramatic

In a conservative old town, say something new and be prepared for the stones!

After all, addiction is just the last stage of consumerism.

Persistent practice alone is the key to yoga. As you take pains to learn, continue with devotion what you have learn.

Well, I try my best to be just like I am, But everybody wants you to be just like them, They sing while you slave and I just get bored

As human beings in general ... I don't think we've grown that much. Technology wise, we are getting too intelligent for our own good.

We'll never be as young as we are tonight.

Life itself is just a thin coat of paint on the planet, and we hold the paintbrush.

If you disagree with your government, that's political. If you disagree with your government that is approaching theocracy, then you're evil.

For me, synchronicity is a way of confirming the rightness of action. It is only in its absence that I realize I'm out of kilter with, for want of a better term, the collective unconscious.

Smallness in a great man seems smaller by its disproportion with all the rest.