Is there not glory enough in living the days given to us? You should know there is adventure in simply being among those we love and the things we love, and beauty, too.

...alas, raising a young lady is a mystery even beyond an enchanter's skill.

I can't stand people who say 'I told you so.' That's worse than somebody coming up and eating your dinner before you have a chance to sit down.

The muse in charge of fantasy wears good, sensible shoes. No foam-born Aphrodite, she vaguely resembles my old piano teacher, who was keen on metronomes.

If life is a loom, the pattern you weave is not so easily unraveled.

Count the deed, not the thought.

Evil cannot be conquered by wishing.