Speech sounds can be analyzed into fundamental units called phonemes; these move around like protozoa in a drop of water, and, like protozoa, join together and split up.

In writing a series of stories about the same characters, plan the whole series in advance in some detail, to avoid contradictions and inconsistencies.

The story of civilization is, in a sense, the story of engineering-that long and arduous struggle to make the forces of nature work for man's good.

There is no mistaking the dismay on the face of a writer who has just heard that his brain child is a deformed idiot.

It does not pay a prophet to be too specific.

More important, it's because God is our only true source of life.

My rule is never save bits. They get the way, and you don't think of anything new. Put 'em in. Make a big mess.

The script is a bible and it's this unchangeable document that somebody spent years and years on.

This was the very reason why you were brought to Narnia, that by knowing me here for a little, you may know me better there.

The farmer and manufacturer can no more live without profit than the labourer without wages.

One of the biggest threats to success is success itself. When you get a little bit ahead, it's all too easy to become complacent and to quickly lose what you have gained.

Nothing meaningful or lasting comes without working hard at it.

Art's development should be dialectical and not metaphysical.

There's no substitute for a great love who says, 'No matter what's wrong with you, you're welcome at this table.'

You have never seen ugliness in a happy face.