Magick, in essence, is the ability to communicate to the universe what you want in an effective way, so that the universe can then respond and create what you desire.
I envy the people who go to Paris the first time
To me, clothing is a form of self-expression - there are hints about who you are in what you wear.
I always find beauty in things that are odd and imperfect - they are much more interesting.
Let's do what we love and do a lot of it.
You can never please everyone, and I think it's best not to.
I like people who have a sense of individuality. I love expression and anything awkward and imperfect, because that’s natural and that’s real.
I usually walk six miles a day. I take my cellphone and I go out on the bike path and I just walk and work.
Religious truth is captive in a small number of little manuscripts which guard the common treasures, instead of expanding them. Let us break the seal which binds these holy things; let us give wings to truth that it may fly with the Word, no longer prepared at vast expense, but multitudes everlastingly by a machine which never wearies to every soul which enters life.
I wanted to create a heroine that was flawed. I wanted her to be a real person. She's selfish, she's childish, she's immature and because I'm doing a three-book arc I really played that up in the first book. I wanted the reader to be annoyed with her at times.
I think everyone feels lost at times during their high school years.