The most professional curse ever snarled or croaked or thundered can have no effect on a pure heart.

I am infected with life and will die of it in time.

You ever want to see real witchcraft, you watch people protecting their comfort, their beliefs.

I am what I am. I would tell you what you want to know if I could, for you have been kind to me. But I am a cat, and no cat anywhere ever gave anyone a straight answer.

Envy nobody. It is the true secret of happiness, or at least the only one I know. (By Moonlight)

The woman I loved died because I did not love her enough - what greater sin is there than that?" (Uncle Chaim and Aunt Fifke and the Angel)

I feel a whole country growing inside me, thousands of years, millions of people, stupid, crazy, shrewd people, and all of them me. I never felt like that before, I never felt that there was anything inside me, even myself.