Once you discover that the world rewards reckless faith, no lesser world is worth contemplating.

Conscience. Conscience is the ultimate measure of a man.

you can't really separate modernity from history or spiritual concerns from mundane ones. Everything feeds into everything else.

The censors don't bother with fantasy books, especially old ones. They can't understand them. They think it's all kids' stuff. They'd die if they knew what The Chronicles of Narnia were really about.

Love the life you have been given. And be humbled by it. It is not to be despised.

Dear child, some stories have no morals. Sometimes darkness and madness are simply that.

Controversy is what mediocre people start because they can't communicate anything meaningful.

Many of us prefer to live in places abandoned by humans. Less work for us. Detroit is very popular.

So the stories aren't just stories, is what you're saying. They're really secret knowledge disguised as stories.""One could say that of all stories, younger brother.

Metaphors: knowledge existing in several states and without contradiction

The few Americans he had encountered in his lifetime had all seemed flat to him, as if freedom weakened one's capacity for intense emotion by demanding too little of it.

You can resolve any situation with wisdom

The only thing better than a well-read book is a well-read book only read by yourself.

What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.

I remember once having to stop performing when I thought an elderly man a few rows back from the front was actually going to die because he was laughing so hard.

If you intend to make a living at drawing, by all means learn it [the rules of perspective] now, and do not have them bothering you and your work for the rest of your life.

It is when those who are not strong enough have made some moderate amount of progress that they fail and give up.

I am finding it very hard to get my novel started. I suffer from stylistic abscesses; and sentences keep itching without coming to a head.

Execution is a systematic process of rigorously discussing hows and whats, tenaciously following through, and ensuring accountability.

I enjoy being the messenger for God in terms of letting people know about HIV and AIDS.

Every instrument that has been designed to be sensitive enough to detect weak light has always ended up discovering that the same thing: light is made of particles.