The thing with pretending you're in a good mood is that sometimes you can.

There are few joys to compare with the telling of a well-told tale.

The few wonders of the world only exist while there are those with the sight to see them.

The problem with children is that you have to put up with their parents.

I want to touch the heart of the world and make it smile.

The fey wonders of the world only exist while there are those with the sight to see them.

If you're not ready to die, then how can you live?

The road leading to a goal does not separate you from the destination; it is essentially a part of it.

Stone walls confine a tinker; cold iron binds a witch; but a musician's music can never be fettered, for it lives first in her heart and mind.

Not everything has to mean something. Some things just are.

Why did men worship in churches, locking themselves away in the dark, when the world lay beyond its doors in all its real glory?

Life is like art. You have to work hard to keep it simple and still have meaning.

As far as I'm concerned, the only difference between fact and what most people call fiction is about fifteen pages in the dictionary.

When all's said and done, all roads lead to the same end. So it's not so much which road you take, as how you take it.

Without mysteries, life would be very dull indeed. What would be left to strive for if everything were known?

Witchery is merely a word for what we are all capable of.

One expected growth, change; without it, the world was less, the well of inspiration dried up, the muses fled.

The best artists know what to leave out.

A long time ago a bunch of people reached a general consensus as to what's real and what's not and most of us have been going along with it ever since.

Remember the quiet wonders. The world has more need of them than it has for warriors.

I think you're all mad. But that's part and parcel of being an artistic genius, isn't it?

It's good to have mysteries. It reminds us that there's more to the world than just making do and having a bit of fun.

The thing with pretending you're in a good mood is that sometimes you can.

I'm not Chinese. I thrive in interesting times.

Don't forget - no one else sees the world the way you do, so no one else can tell the stories that you have to tell.

I've always known and been interested in people who are a little bit off the norm. I like to call attention to the idea that they are there, that they are real people, not invisible.

Often the magical elements in my books are standing in for elements of the real world, the small and magical-in-their-own-right sorts of things that we take for granted and no longer pay attention to, like the bonds of friendship that entwine our own lives with those of other people and places.

The beginning of a friendship, the fact that two people out of the thousands around them can meet and connect and become friends, seems like a kind of magic to me. But maintaining a friendship requires work. I don't mean that as a bad thing. Good art requires work as well.

When one of my characters becomes aware of a magical element, it might be because the world is wider than we assume it to be, but it might also be a reminder to pay attention to what is here already, hidden only because it's been forgotten.

Being in quite a few movies... there's always things that are changing about a film.

The danger of the Internet is cocooning with the like-minded online - of sending an email or Twitter and confusing that with action - while the real corporate and military and government centers of power go right on.

It is a universal principle that you get more of what you think about, talk about, and feel strongly about.

When you stand in the present moment, you are timeless.

I've always just liked working. I like being a working actor.

I was really into '24' at university, and it resulted in a lot of lost hours that could have been spent at the library. If you could have told me then I would be in it one day, I'd have hit the roof.

I doing casual labor by the day. They wouldn't pay you until the next morning. There was a bar that would cash your check if you bought a beer first. A lot of guys never left until they'd drunk up all their money.

Switzerland is a curst, selfish, swinish country of brutes, placed in the most romantic region of the world.

It's considered acceptable in our culture to approach perfect strangers, as often or not who may be in extremis, and evangelise. I don't see why that's considered a normal thing.

My philosophy of defense is to keep the pressure on an opponent until you get to his emotions.

For me, the level at which natural selection causes the phenomenon of adaptation is the level of the replicator - the gene.

I was studying political science; I was adamant that I was going to follow in my father's footsteps.

There's something very Nixonian about the idea of keeping an enemy's list.

When people are laughing, they're generally not killing one another.

I trained myself to perform on the field.

A lady emailed me that her child had been diagnosed with autism and that hearing my material on the subject had helped her. To me, it just means that I'm making the right decision in talking about this.

I love it. When they stop imitating me then I'll start wondering where I'm going wrong. Every day when I sit down to play, I learn something new.

Sometimes all it takes is a kind word of encouragement to get your heroes back on the right path.

Parents, you know, can be terrible.

I dearly love the state of Texas, but I consider that a harmless perversion on my part, and discuss it only with consenting adults.