“Adventures are all very well in their place, but there’s a lot to be said for regular meals and freedom from pain.”

It’s not hard to own something. Or everything. You just have to know that it’s yours, and then be willing to let it go.

We often confuse what we wish for with what is.

I can believe things that are true and things that aren’t true and I can believe things where nobody knows if they’re true or not.

I went away in my head, into a book. That was where I went whenever real life was too hard or too inflexible.

Most books on witchcraft will tell you that witches work naked. This is because most books on witchcraft were written by men.

Google can bring you back 100,000 answers. A librarian can bring you back the right one.

I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else.

All your questions can be answered if that is what you want. But once you learn your answers, you can never unlearn them.

If you dare nothing, then when the day is over, nothing is all you will have gained.

Anyone who believes what a cat tells him deserves all he gets.

But how can you walk away from something and still come back to it?

I do not miss childhood, but I miss the way I took pleasure in small things, even as greater things crumbled.

Books make great gifts because they have whole worlds inside of them. And it’s much cheaper to buy somebody a book than it is to buy them the whole world!

I don’t want whatever I want. Nobody does. Not really. What kind of fun would it be if I just got everything I ever wanted just like that, and it didn’t mean anything? What then?

I think hell is something you carry around with you. Not somewhere you go.

Nobody looks like what they really are on the inside. You don’t. I don’t. People are much more complicated than that. It’s true of everybody.

Don’t adventures ever have an end? I suppose not. Someone else always has to carry on on the story.

I’m on this extraordinary adventure, and if I have no one to talk to at the end of the night, I feel lonely.

Sorry! I don’t want any adventures, thank you. Not Today. Good morning! But please come to tea -any time you like! Why not tomorrow? Good bye!

I am looking for someone to share in an adventure that I am arranging, and it’s very difficult to find anyone.’

If you surround yourself with people who are strong and positive, you’re more likely to see a world full of opportunity and adventure.

I wish I could be behind the wheel for every stunt.

I feel something troubling inside of me which scares me, an exhausting violence. But I accept the great adventure of being me.

Science is most significant as one of the greatest spiritual adventures that man has yet known.