“Books may well be the only true magic.”
“The Arcade, and now Peabody's, combined to tell me that there was life in objects, in books. It was all about having eyes to see the true meaning of things. As Pike proved daily, books held a kind of magic, an apparent as well as a hidden value.”
“In the New Year, may not all your dreams come true, but may only all your good and right dreams come true, because men have evil dreams as well!”
“Only the magic and the dream are true — all the rest's a lie.”
“Politics is the art of saying well that which may or may not be true.”
“In a well-functioning democracy, the state constitution is considered more important than God's holy book, whichever holy book that may be, and God matters only in your private life.”