Our easiest approach to a definition of any aspect of fiction is always by considering the sort of demand it makes on the reader. Curiosity for the story, human feelings and a sense of value for the characters, intelligence and memory for the plot. What does fantasy ask of us? It asks us to pay something extra.

Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art's sake.

Only people who have been allowed to practise freedom can have the grown-up look in their eyes.

I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man's pleasure when they come a cropper.

The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.

Do we find happiness so often that we should turn it off the box when it happens to sit there?

In the creative state a man is taken out of himself.