Human beings love stories because they safely show us beginnings, middles and ends.

I acquired a hunger for fairy tales in the dark days of blackout and blitz in the Second World War.

What literature can and should do is change the people who teach the people who don't read the books.

No mere human can stand in a fire and not be consumed.

Art does not exist for politics, or for instruction- it exists primarily for pleasure, or it is nothing.

Things are not what they seem.

I think the names of colors are at the edge, between where language fails and where it's at its most powerful.

I worry about anthropomorphism as a form of self-deception. (The Christian religion is an anthropomorphic account of the universe.)

Narration is as much a part of human nature as breath and the circulation of the blood.

I think vestigially there's a synesthete in me but not like a real one who immediately knows what colour Wednesday is.

He felt changed, but there was no one to tell.

Be grateful for life. Show gratitude to others, whether it’s verbally or energetically, it has the same effect.

Only the weak finds comfort in making excuses and pointing finger.

One of the reasons that may force you walk away from great opportunities is when your values are keep violated...

One of my favorite quotes is:"... If I strike you it ain't going to be in your fancy.

We can do things that we never could before. Stop-motion lets you build tiny little worlds, and computers make that world even more believable.

The reveries of the dreamer advance his hopes, but not their realization. One good hour of earnest work is worth them all.

I like to watch comedies; the most dramatic that I used to get was 'Forrest Gump.'

You must find the ideas that have some promise in them... It is not enough to just have ideas.

The wine urges me on, the bewitching wine, which sets even a wise man to singing and to laughing gently and rouses him up to dance and brings forth words which were better unspoken.

I'm determined to be a diva.