Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it.

We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself.

Using the device of an imaginary world allows me in some strange way to go to the central issues - it's one of many ways to express feelings about real people, about real human relationships.

Craftsmanship isn't like water in an earthen pot, to be taken out by the dipperful until it's empty. No, the more drawn out the more remains.

Keep reading. It's one of the most marvelous adventures that anyone can have.

He [the cat] liked to peep into the refrigerator and risk having his head shut in by the closing door. He also climbed to the top of the stove, discontinuing the practice after he singed his tail.

The only thing a cat worries about is what's happening right now. As we tell the kittens, you can only wash one paw at a time.

Is there worse evil than that which goes in the mask of good?

Seize the day, whatever's in it to seize, before something comes along and seizes you.

Thinking is a bit uncomfortable, but you'll get used to it. A matter of time and practice.

I decided that adventure was the best way to learn about writing.

I don’t know. I guess I’d just like to see you live one day for yourself.

A leader's most important decisions are about people. Who do you put in which jobs? How long do you leave them in a job?

Sometimes it looks like I'm dancing, but it's just that I walked into a spider web.

What does it take to get you to the point where you have to kill your brother? It's biblical, it's huge. It's so personal.

It is said that in life we must play with the cards we are dealt, but too often I have kept those cards too close to my chest.

Do you see what little is required of a man to live a well-tempered and god-fearing life? Obey these precepts, and the gods will ask nothing more.

I love the crossbow. I mean it's just fun. Guns are fun, I can't deny that shooting guns in movies isn't fun. But a crossbow is pretty rad.

It takes more than industry to industrialize.

Love is that common tone shall raise his fiery head and sound his note.

They wrote that I'd gained 30 pounds over the summer and lost it in a week because I was dating three guys at once!