“Doubt was much more energy efficient than conviction.”

“I've told you before, I don't comprehend religion, although conviction is a concept I'm beginning to get. In any case, someone with a real religious conviction is, I propose, a religious convict, and deserves locking up.”

“So she listened hard. And she began to evolve, because stories work their magic that way. They build conviction and erode conviction in equal measure.”

“I may not be sure if monsters exist, but I’d rather live my life in doubt than be persuaded by a real experience of one.”

“At its most elemental, a spell is no more than a recipe for change.”

“There were more ways to live than the ones given by one's superiors”

“Aren't these the finest treasures? Each one springs up, and becomes more red than rubies, more fine than diamonds adn more valuable, so we are told; and before you can run back here again to look, the petals have begin to drop and the leaves to yellow. Look, they sag, they fall. Are they the more wonderful because they live such a short time.”