It is curious and we magicians collect curiosities, you know.

Drawing teaches habits of close observation that will always be useful.

She even learnt the language of a strange country which Senior Cosetti had been told some people believed still existed, although no-one in the world could say where it was. The name of this country was Wales.

Time and I have quarrelled. All hours are midnight now. I had a clock and a watch, but I destroyed them both. I could not bear the way they mocked me.

He hardly ever spoke of magic, and when he did it was like a history lesson and no one could bear to listen to him.

The land is all too shallow It is painted on the sky And trembles like the wind-shook rain When the Raven King passed by

I mean that two of any thing is a most uncomfortable number. One may do as he pleases. Six may get along well enough. But two must always struggle for mastery. Two must always watch each other. The eyes of all the world will be on two, uncertain which of them to follow.