There are worlds beyond worlds and times beyond times, all of them true, all of them real, and all of them (as children know) penetrating each other.

The Irish, as a race, have the oral tradition in their blood. A direct question to them is an anathema, but in other cases, a mere syllable of a hero's name will elicit whole chapters of stories.

Don't you know that everybody's got a Fairyland of their own?

There’s great beauty on this world if you just have the eyes to see it.

All of us are subject to being passive to the social ills around us. It's a struggle not to become, by staying silent, an accomplice.

A writer is, after all, only half his book. The other half is the reader and from the reader the writer learns.

More and more I’ve become convinced that the great treasure to possess is the unknown.

Child and serpent, star and stone — all one.

If we are going to teach the world to stop hating the different, the other, then we’re going to have to start with children.

Once we have accepted the story we cannot escape the story's fate.

Tea is balm for the soul, don't you agree?

There is a savage beast in every man, and when you hand that man a sword or spear and send him forth to war, the beast stirs.

We cannot tell that we are constantly splitting into duplicate selves because our consciousness rides smoothly along only one path in the endlessly forking chains

It became a weekend of reading, of trying to see her in the fragments of the poem she'd left for me.

Infinite patience, infinite purity and infinite perseverance are the key elements of achieving your desired goal.

The only time a question should be asked is when all other possibilities of finding the answer for yourself have been eliminated.

The sexual is part of everything, and it's highly formalized. I hadn't done figure for a long time. And I thought to myself, "Why not the erotic figure?"

The only thing surfers have in common with the rest of America is they're unemployed and they love crystal meth.

Bless be the ones who serve others. They are the ones who find heaven on earth.

I promise to keep you happy, safe, and in love - for as long as my heart wakes; and as much as you soul takes.

What you resist will persist; what you befriend, you will transcend.