Childhood is a tricky business. Usually, something goes wrong.

And it is through fantasy that children achieve catharsis. It is the best means they have for taming wild things.

'Hansel and Gretel' is one of the scariest stories ever written! Psychotic mother; stupid, inane father.

And the walls became the world all around.

There must be more to life than having everything.

I know that if there’s a purpose for life, it was for me to hear Mozart.

Emeralds,' said the rabbit. 'Emeralds make a lovely gift.

Children do live in fantasy and reality; they move back and forth very easily in a way we no longer remember how to do.

I wish you all good things. Live your life, live your life, live your life.

A book is really like a lover. It arranges itself in your life in a way that is beautiful.

And now," cried Max, "let the wild rumpus start!

The first time he saw me, comatose with a head the size of 3 basketballs, he didn't even think it was me.

To the extent that we are all educated and informed, we will be more equipped to deal with the gut issues that tend to divide us.

I'm no robin hood, I enjoy making the money.

If there is one doctrine I have preached more than another, it is the doctrine of the Perseverance of the Saints even to the end.

My mother is a very strange woman... She doesn't understand me in the least and doesn't love me much either. If she had either love or understanding she would be prepared to make sacrifices

Grief, first take on shape! what is shapeless causes fear and torment but when the enemy materializes, half the victory is won.

To be a poet did not occur to me. It was indeed a threshold guarded by demons.

All pain we experience is intended to move us closer to the goal of being holy as He is holy.

And the big question for the West, of course, and to the Europeans is, what other countries, which were formerly part of the Soviet bloc, should be incorporated into western institutions?