You can't find someone who doesn't want to be found.

Just as when we come into the world, when we die we are afraid of the unknown. But the fear is something from within us that has nothing to do with reality. Dying is like being born: just a change

Her Uncle Jaime felt that people never read what did not interest them and that if it interested them that meant they were sufficiently mature to read it.

…she did not believe that the world was a vale of tears but rather a joke that God had played and that it was idiotic to take it seriously if He himself never had.

He hoped that none of his descendants would get mixed up in politics, which was a trade for butchers and bandits.

I always knew he was selfish and self-indulgent and kind of lazy

Magic is the fifth fundamental force and is even more mysterious than gravity, which is really saying something.

I don’t regret or fear my problems and roadblocks. They have made me brave and given me the opportunity to overcome them.

Since the dawn of humanity, stories have allowed each of us to be many.

The world holds no trace of what happens in it unless we carve it in with violence or concrete.

All I ever wanted to do was to make food accessible to everyone to show that you can make mistakes - I do all the time - but it doesn't matter.

Never answer a question from a farmer.

As I look back, I see that life is like a game of solitaire and every once in a while there is a move.

All black Americans have slave names. They have white names; names that the slave master has given to them.

It's better to be good than evil, but one achieves goodness at a terrific cost.