Eleven would have been the best time. Eleven is just about the best age for almost everything.

If you try to make your circle closed and exclusively yours, it never grows very much. Only a circle that has lots of room for anybody who needs it has enough spare space to hold any real magic.

Know all the Questions, but not the Answers Look for the Different, instead of the Same Never Walk where there's room for Running Don't do anything that can't be a Game

Imagination is a great thing in long dull hours, but it's a real curse in a dark alley.

Nothing's real unless you want it to be, and anything can be real if you want it to enough; so real doesn't really mean anything.

It's such a wonderful feeling to watch a child discover that reading is a marvelous adventure rather than a chore.

The answers aren't important really... What's important is- knowing all the questions.

Belief in mysteries, any manner of mysteries, is the only lasting luxury in life.

We all invite our own devils, and we must exorcise our own.

Know all the Questions, but not the AnswersLook for the Different, instead of the SameNever Walk where there's room for RunningDon't do anything that can't be a Game

Belonging to a place isn't nearly as necessary as belonging to people you love and who love you and need you.

There is nowhere morning does not go.

It's fun because you can escape and learn about what other people's minds have created. It inspires you to think maybe you could come up with a creature yourself. I like that.

For me, something dangerous would be playing thebabe in a huge studio film. That would be terrifying because I'dstink... I want to explore human beings on as deep a level as I can.

The White House is a strange place.

I'm not afraid of anything. That's just the way I am.

Keep your brain active. Engage your brain. Your brain is the most fantastic machine ever created, and it needs to be exercised.

M F K Fisher is the dowager queen of writers on browsing and slicing.

I'm an internationalist. I want to help others, not just kill terrorists.

Tom Kealey might be my favorite short story writer and this astonishing collection is long overdue.

If you listen long enough you can hear my skin grow tough love is painful to the touch must be made of stronger stuff.