You should always listen to minotaurs. Anybody with four stomachs has to have a firm grip on reality.

All jobs are odd, or they would be games or naps or picnics.

It's a dreadful world with only your own heart to drive you.

But the trick most folk are so awfully fond of learning, the absolute second they've got hold of a heart, is to pretend they don't have one at all. It is the very first danger of the hearted.

you have to have the right sort of stone. Peridot for mothers, girasol for lovers, sapphire for sadness, and garnet for joy.

You can't trust just any old person who comes along with a hundred puffins and a pretty face!

Everyone has their invisible cloak of all things past.

That is the trouble with standing up to people, of course. Once you start doing it, you can hardly stop.

All Librarians are Secret Masters of Severe Magic. Goes with the territory.

A Bank is but a college of Fiscal Magic.

Music has more rules than math or magic and it's twice as dangerous as both or either.

A feeling that was possibly generated by experiences in my previous work on cosmic rays; more likely it was inborn and was the reason why, as a young man, I went into the field of cosmic rays.

I learned how to sign because when I was growing up in California in order to get into college you needed two semesters of language to get into a University of California school.

We work day after day, not to finish things; but to make the future better ... because we will spend the rest of our lives there.

You have not taught until they have learned.

Gardening is a humbling experience.

It's magazines like HITS that have to label things.

I’m not, like, that smart.

You know what's the worst part about being an actress? It's the pressure to look gorgeous all the time and to behave perfectly. But I'm not perfect, nobody is.

When backed up against a wall, dig deep, demand excellence, stand tall, and be strong.

I feel sometimes an American artist must feel, like a baseball player or something - a member of a team writing American history.