I'm a poet,' the young man said, 'And it's my job to remember the sadness of things.

Those old hypocrites. They talk about killing witches but the Good Book’s full of magic. Turning the Nile to blood and parting the Red Sea. What’s that if it’s not good old-fashioned magic? Want a little water into wine? No trouble! How about raising the dead man Lazarus? Just say the word!

Nothing else wounds so deeply and irreparably. Nothing else robs us of hope so much as being unloved by one we love

I've learned two things in my life. One that love is the beginning and end of all meaning. And two that it is the same thing whatever shape our souls have taken on this journey. Love is love. Is love.

It is great good health to believe as the Hindus do that there are 33 million gods and goddesses in the world. It is great good health to want to understand one s dreams. It is great good health to desire the ambiguous and paradoxical. It is sickness of the profoundest kind to believe that there is one reality. There is sickness in any piece of work or any piece of art seriously attempting to suggest that the idea that there is more than one reality is somehow redundant.

I've never worked where it was hard to be gay. Besides, being gay is a spectacular irrelevance to getting on with your life.

..She had that brand of pragmatism that would find her the first brewing tea after Armageddon.