Money makes people rich; it is a fallacy to think it makes them better, or even that it makes them worse. People are what they do, and what they leave behind.

What is magic? There is the wizard's explanation... wizards talk about candles, circles, planets, stars, bananas, chants, runes and the importance of having at least four good meals every day.

One of the things forgotten about the human spirit is that while it is, in the right conditions, noble and brave and wonderful, it is also, when you get right down to it, only human.

Theres no stink more sorrorful than the stink of wet, burnt paper. It means: the end.

Everything is a test.

You know how to pray, don’t you? Just put your hands together and hope.

He looked up at them, a scruffy Napoleon with his laces trailing, exiled to a rose-trellised Elba.