"We are all children of the universe, and we are all connected."

"If you want your writing to be taken seriously, don’t marry and have kids, and above all, don’t die. But if you have to die, commit suicide."

"Wizards do not do magic, they do their jobs."

"The artist is a man who has to fight with the world for the right to be himself."

"To learn which questions are unanswerable, and not to answer them: this skill is most needful in times of stress and darkness."