“Life is not a fairground, but a school. -- Franz Bardon”

“Be kind and generous to your fellows, but hard and relentless with yourself.”

“In point of fact, most witches probably know more about liquor and how to properly drink it than many ancient and knowledgeable bartenders.”

“Life without a Kindle is like life without a library nearby.”

“The meaning of life is that it stops.”

“Slept, awoke, slept, awoke, miserable life.”

“Life is astonishingly short. As I look back over it, life seems so foreshortened to me that I can hardly understand, for instance, how a young man can decide to ride over to the next village without being afraid that, quite apart from accidents, even the span of a normal life that passes happily may be totally insufficient for such a ride.”