I find myself in a new and strange position here: President, cabinet, Gen. Scott, and all deferring to me. By some strange operation of magic I seem ….

A well-composed book is a magic carpet on which we are wafted to a world that we cannot enter in any other way..

I outlived the bastards..

Nothing is put on pause. Everything is still happening. And then as far as just reflecting on what got you to where you are, there aren't very many t….

To ask me to verify my life by giving you my statistics is like using science to validate sorcery. It robs the world of its magic and makes milestone….

I don't take things off. I either check things off or I add things..

A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic..

Discover what you are..

I know it's going to be just magical, and almost certainly going to be over quickly - on playing Sharapova..

I didn't not perform..

I stepped into the bookshop and breathed in that perfume of paper and magic that strangely no one had ever thought of bottling..

There are no magic wands, no hidden tracks, and no secret handshakes that can bring you immediate success, but with time, energy and determination yo….

Nothing is 'just' anything with you.

...it's just as bad to live in a place where what you do see isn't there as it is to live in one where what you don't see is..

Meryl Streep is awesome. I really want to work with Emma Stone; she is adorable. Now I want to work with Octavia Spencer, because I met her and she's….

We are being programmed by mental pygmies..

I am service-centric. I always intend to leave places better than I find them..

I'm not hooked on cognac, but I've enjoyed it over the years..

I'll assure you this: I will have nothing to do with politics..

If you see the magic in a fairy tale, you can face the future..

I wanted something new, the supernatural. The witch, the sorcerer, I love this. I love the films of the witch and sorcerers and magic, its wonderful!.