After all, I believe that legends and myths are largely made of 'truth', and indeed present aspects of it that can only be received in this mode; and long ago certain truths and modes of this kind were discovered and must always reappear.

The wise speak only of what they know

There is nothing like looking, if you want to find something. You certainly usually find something, if you look, but it is not always quite the something you were after.

To think I should have lived to be goodmorninged by Belladonna Took's son, as if I was selling buttons at the door!

Fantasy (in this sense) is, I think, not a lower but a higher form of Art, indeed the most nearly pure form, and so (when achieved) the most potent.

Never laugh at live dragons.

Being a cult figure in one's own lifetime I am afraid is not at all pleasant. However I do not find that it tends to puff one up: in my case at any rate it makes me feel extremely small and inadequate. But even the nose of a very modest idol cannot remain entirely untickled by the sweet smell of incense.