The puppet thinks: It's not so much what they make me do as their hands inside me.

Magic's never what you expect it to be, but it's often what you need.

Let it go on record that any confusion arose simply because we lacked certain commonalities of reference.

As far as I'm concerned, the only difference between fact and what most people call fiction is about fifteen pages in the dictionary.

Most children are given far too much praise for their early drawings, so much so that they rarely learn the ability to refine their first crude efforts the way their early attempts at language are corrected.

I wouldn't like to live in a world where everything's as cut-and-dried as most people think it is

Stone walls confine a tinker; cold iron binds a witch; but a musician's music can never be fettered, for it lives first in her heart and mind.