“Just handle the books gently and you’ll get along fine.”

Aftermath

Source: Sloppy Firsts

Vorkosigan Saga, Cetaganda (1996)

2010s, 2015, Interview with Jim Gray (September 2015)

De Abaitua interview (1998)
Context: What I would prefer to have is to have a kind of magic where we say, "OK, we’re going to do a magical performance on this night, at this time. You come along, if you don’t think it’s magical, that’s fine. We’ll show you. We’ll show you what we mean, and you judge for yourself." That’s only fair. So a lot of the magic we do tends to gravitate toward the practical end, toward something that is tangible. Where you’ve got a record at the end of it, a performance at the end of it, a painting at the end of it. You’ve conjured some energy, some idea, some information from somewhere and put it in a tangible form. You conjure something into existence in a literal sense. A rabbit out of a hat. Something out of nothing. That’s one level to it, but there’s a lot of background to that. That’s the stuff that people see, that’s the end result of the process. But we also do a lot of ritual work purely on our own.

The Truth About Forever

To Leon Goldensohn, February 16, 1946, from "The Nuremberg Interviews" by Leon Goldensohn, Robert Gellately - History - 2004

On her song “Coming Around Again” in “Carly Simon: 'I'm Constantly Reemerging In My Life'” https://www.npr.org/2015/11/21/456498644/carly-simon-im-constantly-reemerging-in-my-life in NPR (2015 Nov 21)