Magic's never what you expect it to be, but it's often what you need.

Remember the quiet wonders. The world has more need of them than it has for warriors.

Look inside yourself for the answers - you're the only one who knows what's best for you. Everybody else is only guessing.

Most children are given far too much praise for their early drawings, so much so that they rarely learn the ability to refine their first crude efforts the way their early attempts at language are corrected.

There's more to life than just surviving . . . but . . . sometimes just surviving is all you get

It is so easy for your people to forget that everything has a spirit, that all are equal. That magic and mystery are a part of your lives, not something to store away in a child's bedroom, or to use as an escape from your lives.

The thing to remember when you're writing," he said, " is, it's not whether or not what you put on paper is true. It's whether it wakes a truth in your reader. I don't care what literary device you might use, or belief systems you tap into--if you can make a story true for the reader, if you can give them a glimpse into another way of seeing the world, or another way that they can cope with their problems, then that story is a succes.