Whatever makes you weird is probably your greatest asset.
The horns came riding in like the rainbow masts of silver ships.
Take me with you. For laughs, for luck, for the unknown. Take me with you.
You ever want to see real witchcraft, you watch people protecting their comfort, their beliefs.
Great heroes need great sorrows and burdens, or half their greatness goes unnoticed. It is all part of the fairy tale.
If she had touched me," he said very softly, "I would have been hers and not my own, not ever again. I wanted her to touch me but I could not let her. No cat will. We let human beings caress us because it is pleasant enough and calms them - but not her. The price is more than a cat can pay.
Only to a magician is the world forever fluid, infinitely mutable and eternally new. Only he knows the secret of change, only he knows truly that all things are crouched in eagerness to become something else, and it is from this universal tension that he draws his power.
As an art form, opera is a rare and remarkable creation. For me, it expresses aspects of the human drama that cannot be expressed in any other way, or certainly not as beautifully.
God is on the side of the heaviest cannon.
We make our money out of our friends. Our enemies will not do business with us.
It is no madness to say you will fall, you great cities.