Classically, very few people have considered that cleanliness is next to godliness. A rank loincloth and hair in an advanced state of matted entanglement have generally been the badges of office of prophets whose injunction to disdain earthly things starts with soap.

The dwarfs can turn lead into gold... It reached the pointy ears of the dwarfs. -Can we? -Damned if I know. I can't. -Yeah, but if you could, you wouldn't say. I wouldn't say, if I could. -Can you? -No! -Ah-ha!

Neither of my parents went to church, but they did everything that you needed to do to be Christian. That's something a Quaker would call an intimation of the divine.

The space between the young reader’s eyeballs and the printed page is a holy place and officialdom should trample all over it at their peril.’

When it's time to stop living, I will certainly make Death my number one choice!

Or -- and this she knew was a far more accurate way of looking at it -- the book was true and reality was lying.

The trouble with being a god is that you've got no one to pray to.