Do not cite the Deep Magic to me, Witch. I was there when it was written.

The birth of Christ is the central event in the history of the earth-- the very thing the whole story has been about.

Never exaggerate. Never say more than you really mean.

Where I come from, they don't think much of men who are bossed about by their wives.

Humility is self-forgetfulness.

Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.

There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civilizations - these are mortal, and their life is to ours as the life of a gnat. But it is immortals whom we joke with, work with, marry, snub and exploit - immortal horrors or everlasting splendors. This does not mean that we are to be perpetually solemn. We must play. But our merriment must be of that kind (and it is, in fact, the merriest kind) which exists between people who have, from the outset, taken each other seriously - no flippancy, no superiority, no presumption.