Wisdom is finding joy in bewilderment

Don't be afraid. Don't be afraid of anything. Whatever you have been, you are mine now. I can hold you.

It's really not so good to have time. Rush, scramble, desperation, this missed, that left behind, those others too big to fit into such a small space--that's the way life was meant to be. You're supposed to be too late for some things. Don't worry about it.

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

Whatever can die is beautiful — more beautiful than a unicorn, who lives forever, and who is the most beautiful creature in the world. Do you understand me?

Beyond the town, darker than dark, King Haggard's castle teetered like a lunatic on stilts.

Only to a magician is the world forever fluid, infinitely mutable and eternally new. Only he knows the secret of change, only he knows truly that all things are crouched in eagerness to become something else, and it is from this universal tension that he draws his power.