I don't think the idea of homosexuality is really taboo any more. Our culture is evolving. This is an exciting time to be living.

And remember that the danger which is most to be feared is never the danger we are most afraid of.

You can cover a great deal of country in books.

A book is a friend whose face is constantly changing. If you read it when you are recovering from an illness, and return to it years after, it is changed surely, with the change in yourself.

Of all the minor creatures of mythology, fairies are the most beautiful, the most numerous, the most memorable.

Either a wise man will not go into bunkers, or, being in, he will endure such things as befall him with patience.

Life's more amusing than we thought.