“As long as people are going to call you lunatic anyway, why not get the benefit of it? It liberates you from convention.”

“People always did like to talk, didn't they? That's why I call myself a witch now: the Wicked Witch of the West, if you want the full glory of it. As long as people are going to call you a lunatic anyway, why not get the benefit of it? It liberates you from convention.”

“When you stay too long in the same place, things and people go to pot on you, they rot and start stinking for your special benefit.”

“Where are you anyway? (Acheron)I don't know. I hear some godawful kind of music from outside, horns blaring, and I'm in a house with a Mohawk cuckoo bird, a transvestite, and a knife-wielding lunatic. (Valerius)Why are you at Tabitha's? (Acheron)”

“When people are going to be taken from you anyway, then it would be better if you had never come to care for them.”

“As long as you are going to be thinking anyway, think big.”