Magic, if that was the right word, often rises and falls on your own belief in your abilities. I've seen very powerful people completely crippled by self-doubt.

Hesitation will get you killed.

She doesn't understand what she's asking, Jean-Claude said. No, but she asks, and if we do not do it, we will always wonder. I would rather thy and fail than regret having never tried at all.

a pink taffeta evening gown. It looked like it had run away from a junior high prom... The dress looked like a petunia on steroids to me.

If I wasn't dead already, I'd said I was having a heart attack.

What we prefer to read is sort of like sexual preference, you like what you like. Most of the time you have no clue why.

I wasn't afraid of him anymore, because I could smell his fear. You never had to be afraid of anything that was afraid of you.