I’m not superstitious. I’m a witch. Witches aren’t superstitious. We are what people are superstitious of.

Privilege (to the privileged) means having private laws.

Night poured over the desert. It came suddenly, in purple. In the clear air, the stars drilled down out of the sky, reminding any thoughtful watcher that it is in the deserts and high places that religions are generated. When men see nothing but bottomless infinity over their heads they have always had a driving and desperate urge to find someone to put in the way.

You did something because it had always been done, and the explanation was, ‘But we’ve always done it this way.’ A million dead people can’t have been wrong, can they?

Personal’s not the same as important. People just think it is.

I think you should be proud of not being worse than just deeply introverted and socially maladjusted.

Gods play games with the fates of men. But first they have to get all the pieces on the board and look all over the place for the dice.