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.

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

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.

Be careful what you wish for or pray for, because whatever you wish for or pray for, you will have to take care of.

There is no one as good as God.

The dark scary servant of all evil was on his way to rescue me. Somehow that thought failed to make me warm and fuzzy.

Something awful is always going to happen, Arton. It's Sanctuary. You're a Stepson. Awful is a big part of your job.

The uncertainty of the danger belongs to the essence of terrorism.

The giving and receiving of pleasure is a need and an ecstasy.

Show me slowly what I only know the limits of Dance me to the end of love

Ma’at demands a leader.” “Yeah so I’ve heard.

May those who have touched our canvas with their eyes and hearts grow knowing the joy and wonder of an artist of life.

What we are doing is deeply unfair and a profound tragedy - what we're doing in the way of global warming, what we're doing to the oceans - and none of it makes any sense to me.