Somewhere beyond the pain, you turn around and realize that life is beautiful.

There is more magic in our own world than in any world of fantasy.

We live in the most epic of fantasy worlds.

Growing up is the greatest adventure of all.

Just because it's imaginary, doesn't mean it's not real.

To live is to travel, on a voyage more epic than the odysseys of myth - not from place to place, but through the poignant strangeness of time.

Going to sleep is an adventure: you never know where your dreams will take you.

The past is fantasy, and the future is science fiction.

Music is a language - and language, at its finest, should be music.

There are three certainties in a writer's life: death, taxes, and rejection letters.

Behind every novel is a greater story of how it came to be published.

To see a World in a Grain of Sand And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand And Eternity in an hour.

The free man never thinks of escape.

I make art when I can't gather the words to say.

Nice dress, ” Victoria said.“Thank you, ” Perpetua said. “Do you mind if I ask you a personal question?”Victoria blinked. “Uh, what?

You can't stand up to the night until you understand what's hiding in its shadows.

When you direct a movie, you're basically looking at a story, the way you want to look at it. You bring that director's vision, and I'm totally open for that.

Then if my friendships break and bend, There's little need to cry The while I know that every foe Is faithful till I die.

I want to be a positive force in the world, I would like to make people happy.

Ultimately I think what people care about, particularly on an issue like Social Security, is not really what's right and what's left but what's right and what's wrong.

We have to promote human solidarity, avoid indifference, and play a part with society in the solution of the problem of violence.