There is room in history for all of us.

The telling of a story, like virtually everything in this life, was always made all the easier by a cup of tea.

Be content with who you are and where you are, and do whatever you can do to bring to others such contentment, and joy, and understanding that you have managed to find yourself.

Manners are the basic building blocks of civil society.

I see no point in being despondent. We might as well enjoy ourselves during our brief tenure of this life.

How many of us are happy to be exactly where we are at any moment?...only the completely happy think that they are in the correct place.

Talking about pumpkins doesn't make them grow.

We think the world is ours forever, but we are little more than squatters.

There are old mycologists and there are bold mycologists, but there are no old, bold mycologists.

A life without stories would be no life at all. And stories bound us, did they not, one to another, the living to the dead, people to animals, people to the land?

It is sometimes easier to be happy if you don't know everything.

Knowledge is the essence of organized information systems. Wisdom is the essence of knowledge and experience.

I never said you had to like it. You have to accept it. No regret. - Claire Harding - Boone Holler

Success doesn't teach as many lessons as failure

The future is not something we enter. The future is something we create.

Science fiction is one of the smartest genres around because you have to have so much forethought.

[On an actor who'd broken her leg in London:] Oh, how terrible. She must have done it sliding down a barrister.

Don't lie if you don't have to.

Out of the sighs of one generation are kneaded the hopes of the next.

Don’t be vain because you happen to have talent. You are not responsible for that; it was not of your doing. What you do with your talent is what matters.

Telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies.