It's hard for me to believe that a shy, bespectacled college graduate like Brad Meltzer who's a novelist and a father is a really setting out to be weirdly misogynistic.

Performing magic has a lot to do with the arrangement of apparent coincidences and providing pathways along which desires can travel, or, to put it in more basic terms, there's little point in sigilizing for a lottery win if you don't also buy a lottery ticket.

When was the last time you had a thought that wasn't put there by THEM?

I just wanted all the wars to be over so that we could spend the money on starships and Mars colonies.

It's stupid, I know, but I care. All the things that meant so much when we were young. Under the blankets late at night, listening to long-distance radio. All those things lost now or broken. Can you remember? Can you remember that feeling? Perhaps I ought to go to a doctor.

Everyone does magic all the time in different ways. "Life" plus "significance" = magic.

Enough madness? Enough? And how do you measure madness? - The Joker