Lord, let me heed the angels you put in my path.

If you're so afraid of your imagination that you stifle it, how are you going to know God? How can you imagine heaven?

I can't believe there will ever be a time when the book is truly obsolete. It is the perfect technology and feeds the soul.

the reason God made February short a few days was because he knew that by the time people came to the end of it they would die if they had to stand one more blasted day.

Sitting in cold wet britches for an hour was no fun even in a magic kingdom.

The difference between writing a story and simply relating past events is that a story, in order to be acceptable, must have shape and meaning. It is the old idea that art is the bringing of order out of chaos.

All of us can think of a book... that we hope none of our children or any other children have taken off the shelf. But if I have the right to remove that book from the shelf - that work I abhor - then you also have exactly the same right and so does everyone else. And then we have no books left on the shelf for any of us.