Fantasy (in this sense) is, I think, not a lower but a higher form of Art, indeed the most nearly pure form, and so (when achieved) the most potent.

Slight changes simply make a blur.

The birth, death, and resurrection of Jesus means that one day everything sad will come untrue.

The greatest adventure is what lies ahead. Today and tomorrow are yet to be said. The chances, the changes are all yours to make. The mold of your life is in your hands to break.

How do you move on? You move on when your heart finally understands that there is no turning back.

If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.

The chief purpose of life, for any of us, is to increase according to our capacity our knowledge of God by all means we have, and to be moved by it to praise and thanks.

All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.

It simply isn't an adventure worth telling if there aren't any dragons.

It is not the strength of the body that counts, but the strength of the spirit.

Instead of a Dark Lord, you would have a queen, not dark but beautiful and terrible as the dawn! Tempestuous as the sea, and stronger than the foundations of the earth! All shall love me and despair!

I think that women just have a primeval instinct to make soup, which they will try to foist on anybody who looks like a likely candidate.

The sun looks down on nothing half so good as a household laughing together over a meal.

Knowing the precies answers is not as crucial as the certainty that the answers do, in fact, exist.

Judges are required by our democratic system not to overstep their positions to become policy makers or super-legislators.

The perceiver of the dream, the one whom the dream is unfolding before, is what we call the Self.

The heresy of heresies was common sense.

I can't tell you any more than any other writer can tell you why they write, and I don't know what my influences are.

The efficacy of our prayers depends on how much we care for one another.

Influence is to be measured, not by the extent of surface it covers, but by its kind.