The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
Often the magical elements in my books are standing in for elements of the real world the small and magical-in-their-own-right sorts of things that we take for granted and no longer pay attention to like the bonds of friendship that entwine our own lives with those of other people and places.
It's easy for Americans to forget that the food they eat doesn't magically appear on a supermarket shelf.
If you have stage fright it never goes away. But then I wonder: is the key to that magical performance because of the fear?
I always thought it was strange when these artists like Kurt Cobain or whoever would get really famous and say 'I don't understand why this is happening to me.' There is a mathematical formula to why you got famous. It isn't some magical thing that just started happening.
If you look closely there is no book more visual than Three Trapped Tigers in that it is filled with blank pages dark pages it has stars made of words the famous magical cube made of numbers and there is even a page which is a mirror.
There's no quick or magical way to lose weight. You just have to do it the natural way - diet and exercise and stick to it - and be able to do it at your own pace.
My children are magical creatures and I love them to death.
Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.
People don't understand computers. Computers are magical boxes that do things. People believe what computers tell them.
That was when I realised that music is the most profound magical form of communication there is.
I suddenly realized how much I loved her when we attended Alfred Hitchcock's 75th birthday party last August. There was something magical about that night and it made me see how much she really meant to me.
Acting is magical. Change your look and your attitude and you can be anyone.
A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before the change.
Venice is the perfect place for a phase of art to die. No other city on earth embraces entropy quite like this magical floating mall.
The process I go through in the art and the architecture I actually want it to be almost childlike. Sometimes I think it's magical.
Painting is the most magical of mediums. The transcendence is truly amazing to me every time I go to a museum and I see how somebody figured another way to rub colored dirt on a flat surface and make space where there is no space or make you think of a life experience.