“That's all I want- to do no harm.”

“Everyone dies. It's a question of where and how, that's all.”

“Wishing is the beginning of imagination. They practice wishing when they are young things, and then -when they have grown - they have a developed imagination. Which can do some harm - greed, that kind of thing - but more often does them some good. They can imagine that things might be different. Might be other than they seem. Could be better.”

“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.”

“I may not know how to fly but I know how to read, and that's almost the same thing.”

“That's the real power of art, I think. Not to chide but to provoke challenge. Otherwise why bother?”

“It isn't whether you do it well or ill, it's that you do it all.”