I also love Disney, and will defend doing so, because there's so much in those films and I don't care if it's stereotyped.

Writing is writing, and stories are stories. Perhaps the only true genres are fiction and nonfiction. And even there, who can be sure?

The bitterness of joy lies in the knowledge that is cannot last. Nor should joy last beyond a certain season, for, after that season, even joy would become merely habit.

She looked, and a scarlet butterfly flew away from her, away down the length of the tower, and then another, another, an unraveling scarf of butterflies like winged blood.

Archetypes are universal, and, in subtle or extravagant ways, interchangeable.

We need the expressive arts, the ancient scribes, the storytellers, the priests.

The soul is a magician. Only living flesh hampers it.

When I am fascinated by something, I like to play with it.

I submitted manuscripts to publishers. This was not so much a feeling that I should be published as a wish to escape the feared and hated drudgery of normal work.

No one is ever ordinary.

Maidens who stay maidens turn into saints. Old women become sorceresses. Tough jobs, both of these.

Support what is good and spit out what is bad. Get off of your knees and reject the role of slave to the culture of violence.

In order to experience everyday spirituality, we need to remember that we are spiritual beings spending some time in a human body.

I used to want to be a lawyer, but I didn't want to have half my brain sucked out.

It is a greater act of faith to plant a bulb than to plant a tree.

Elvis has left the building to climb up that heavenly stair. So what if he looks like a wart-hog in heat?

The end of desire is the end of sorrow.

I don't like the word 'futurists.' I think we should be 'nowists.'

Going on stage and transcending the audience and becoming this otherworldly thing makes you a dancer. It's not so black and white.

The Paris attack was highly sophisticated, well-planned, very clever, took months in the making, very much like 9/11. And there is a 9/11-style attack coming to America.

In this case, the particle formed has correspondingly less energy, whereas the product nucleus passes into the ground state with emission of the quantity of energy saved as gamma radiation.