If you try to make your circle closed and exclusively yours, it never grows very much. Only a circle that has lots of room for anybody who needs it has enough spare space to hold any real magic.

Know all the Questions, but not the Answers Look for the Different, instead of the Same Never Walk where there's room for Running Don't do anything that can't be a Game

Imagination is a great thing in long dull hours, but it's a real curse in a dark alley.

Nothing's real unless you want it to be, and anything can be real if you want it to enough; so real doesn't really mean anything.

It's such a wonderful feeling to watch a child discover that reading is a marvelous adventure rather than a chore.

The answers aren't important really... What's important is- knowing all the questions.

Belief in mysteries, any manner of mysteries, is the only lasting luxury in life.

We all invite our own devils, and we must exorcise our own.

Eleven would have been the best time. Eleven is just about the best age for almost everything.

Know all the Questions, but not the AnswersLook for the Different, instead of the SameNever Walk where there's room for RunningDon't do anything that can't be a Game

Belonging to a place isn't nearly as necessary as belonging to people you love and who love you and need you.

Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be

I came

Indifference to evil is more insidious than evil itself. It is a silent justification affording evil acceptability in society.

Surprise is the beginning of wisdom.

Kind words and good deeds are eternal. You never know where their influence will end.

The devil does not tempt people whom he finds suitably employed.

My last two characters have been Denethor and Walter Bishop. Both will be hard acts to follow. That sits in the hands of my managers, at present. I just have no idea what's going to be offered to me.

The greatest good [a man] can do is to cultivate himself in order that he may be of greater use to humanity.

But I think frustration is hilarious. One of my missions is to bring humor into fine art. It's sacred.

Do not try to paint the grandiose thing. Paint the commonplace so that it will be distinguished.