How many of us are happy to be exactly where we are at any moment?...only the completely happy think that they are in the correct place.

The telling of a story, like virtually everything in this life, was always made all the easier by a cup of tea.

Be content with who you are and where you are, and do whatever you can do to bring to others such contentment, and joy, and understanding that you have managed to find yourself.

There is room in history for all of us.

Manners are the basic building blocks of civil society.

I see no point in being despondent. We might as well enjoy ourselves during our brief tenure of this life.

Talking about pumpkins doesn't make them grow.

We think the world is ours forever, but we are little more than squatters.

There are old mycologists and there are bold mycologists, but there are no old, bold mycologists.

A life without stories would be no life at all. And stories bound us, did they not, one to another, the living to the dead, people to animals, people to the land?

It is sometimes easier to be happy if you don't know everything.

He would give every penny he has (such is the malignity of the germ) to write one little book and become famous yet all the gold in Peru will not buy him the treasure of a well-turned line.

It wasn't until I look inside myself that I found the truth of it all.

Everything that creates itself upon the backs of smaller scales will by those same scales be consumed.

The strength of a patent doesn’t come from its claims, it comes from the invention

I cannot rest from travel: I will drink Life to the lees: all times I have enjoyed Greatly, have suffered greatly, both with those That loved me, and alone.

The letters don't get their true delight, when done in haste & discomfort, nor merely done with diligence & pain, but first when they are created with love and passion.

I believe, as a producer/director, your duty is to create a beautiful horror film that really resonates.

I made the right decisions, I set everything on the right course, the reforms are going in the right direction.

Whatever you have lived, you can write & by hard work & a genuine apprenticeship, you can learn to write well; but what you have not lived you cannot write, you can only pretend to write it.

We're all going to be victims of temptation at several points in our lives.