“First, the wind would rumble in the distance like an approaching river, then he would see grass bend, pressed by a great invisible hand. The dull rumble would rise in pitch to a swishing, lashing e...”

“I would rather be the person who steps in front of a whole gang to defend someone and gets beaten up for it than the person who watches from a safe hiding. There were times I hid, and I think the s...”

“He could not afford to indulge misery, to live in the past and stumble through life facing backwards.”

“I always hated...all sad songs. I thought they made happy people miserable. Now I think I understand them better. Bards write them because they can't hold them back. Sadness has got to flow out or ...”

“Without imagination, things were only as they appeared - and that was blindness. Things were more than they appeared, so much more. When he considered an oak tree, it was not just a tree. To someon...”

“Aedan had never felt embarrassed about his imagination. Without it there was no magic.”

“If you sound like a contestant from The Apprentice or if the customer believes that they are being sold AT, you have already failed.”

“The relationship between apprentice and mentor is one of the most beautiful and most sacred relationships. In sharing his wisdom with his apprentice, the mentor discovers even more wisdom to share.”

“The great thing about remote or dead masters is that they can't refuse you as an apprentice. You can learn whatever you want from them. They left their lesson plans in their work.”

“Feminists who accept the claim made in The Book of Genesis, and, that God is a he, need to make their minds up.”

“Your moment is now. Claim it!”

“Wise people do not claim to know it all, they always prefer to learn from others.”

“When someone loves you, the way they talk about you is different. You feel safe and comfortable.”

“If I discover within myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.”

“sex is the consolation you have when you can't have love”