“To dream of a magical world is one thing. To be told it exists is quite another.”

“Life never obeys our plans, I'm afraid.”

“Sometimes great power brings out the worst in us, and unfortunately, it isn't until people are given it that we see the true shades of their character.”

“Friends don't drool. Friends don't drool...”

“It's the one thing we never quite get over: that we contain our own future.”

“It's one thing to carry your life wherever you go. Another thing to always go looking for it somewhere else.”

“In a swamp, as in meditation, you begin to glimpse how elusive, how inherently insubstantial, how fleeting our thoughts are, our identities. There is magic in this moist world, in how the mind lets go, slips into sleepy water, circles and nuzzles the banks of palmetto and wild iris, how it seeps across dreams, smears them into the upright world, rots the wood of treasure chests, welcomes the body home.”