Science, my dears, is the systematic dissection of nature, to reduce it to working parts that more or less obey universal laws. Sorcery moves in the opposite direction. It doesn't rend, it repairs. It is synthesis rather than analysis. It builds anew rather than revealing the old. In the hands of someone truly skilled,...it is Art.

My job is to protect you, Lady Glinda even if you are loosing your mind.

I am a forgettable leaf on a tree.

...and he kissed her and kissed her and kissed her, little by little by little.

Wisdom is not the understanding of mystery. Wisdom is accepting that mystery is beyond understanding. That's what makes it mystery.

The sweet accident of coincidence is the best foundation on which to build.

The world unwraps itself to you, again and again as soon as you are ready to see it anew.