Touch magic. Pass it on.

Literature is a textually transmitted disease, normally contracted in childhood.

The tales of Elfland do not stand or fall on their actuality but on their truthfulness, their speaking to the human condition, the longings we all have for the Faerie Other.

Mankind's first sin gave us the ability to know both good and evil. Our subsequent sins make us increasingly unable to tell the difference.

The nights did not come gently but seemed to slam down angrily upon the Earth.

Our constituents paid into Social Security, and they want it paid back to them when they retire. Cutting Social Security benefits that Americans have earned should always be a last resort.

When people ask me what 'American Pie' means, I tell them it means I don't ever have to work again if I don't want to.

Unless you have courage, a courage that keeps you going, always going, no matter what happens, there is no certainty of success. It is really an endurance race.

In childhood, death stirred me not; in middle age, it pursued me like a prowling bandit on the road; now, grown an old man, it boldly leads the way, and ushers me on.

Happiness to me is simply not being unhappy.

What better reward than to see others excited by your work?

Respect kindly all religions that teach loving kindness, and have no respect for envy and jealousy. Never follow hate.

Jacián!" She yells again, and then she says something in Spanish. A moment later he comes down the hallway. "I'm going to tell Grandfather you said that," he says. "What do you want?