Jake went in, aware that he had, for the first time in three weeks, opened a door without hoping madly to find another world on the other side. A bell jingled overhead. The mild, spicy smell of old books hit him, and the smell was somehow like coming home.

If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.

Harry S Truman

One who swims with the tide and not the other side will benefit from the opportunity that flows.

Stephen Richards

When we practice magic we are always making connections, moving energy, identifying with other forms of being. Magic could be called the applied science that is based on an understanding of how energy makes patterns and patterns direct energy. To put it another way, at its heart is a paradox:

Starhawk

Unintelligible answers to insoluble problems.

Henry Adams

There is only one thing that arouses animals more than pleasure, and that is pain. Under torture you are as if under the dominion of those grasses that produce visions. Everything you have heard told, everything you have read returns to your mind, as if you were being transported, not toward heaven, but toward hell. Under torture you say not only what the inquisitor wants, but also what you imagine might please him, because a bond (this, truly, diabolical) is established between you and him.

Umberto Eco

There is scarcely any passion without struggle.

Albert Camus

A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depend on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving.

Albert Einstein

A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments.

G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenb

Instead of killing and dying in order to produce the being that we are not, we have to live and let live in order to create what we are.

Albert Camus

'Allen Gregory' came about because we wanted an animated show and we were just tossing around some ideas about me playing a 7-year-old. We thought that would be cool, because we couldn't do that in real life.

Jonah Hill

The funny thing about an impossibility is that it tends to be a magnet for those who would prove it otherwise.

Richelle E. Goodrich

I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.

Walt Disney