I'm convinced that imagination is at the heart of everything we do - in art, science, even astrophysics and higher mathematics. Imagination leads us to ask, "What if?"

I can't stand people who say 'I told you so.' That's worse than somebody coming up and eating your dinner before you have a chance to sit down.

Neither refuse to give help when it is needed,... nor refuse to accept it when it is offered.

My family pleaded with me to forget literature and do something sensible, such as find some sort of useful work.

Indeed, the more we find to love, the more we add to the measure of our hearts.

Evil conquered?' said Gwydion. 'You have learned much, but learn this last and hardest of lessons. You have conquered only the enchantments of evil. That was the easiest of your tasks, only a beginning, not an ending. Do you believe evil itself to be so quickly overcome? Not so long as men still hate and slay each other, when greed and anger goad them. Against these even a flaming sword cannot prevail, but only that portion of good in all men's hearts whose flame can never be quenched.

Shakespeare, Dickens, Mark Twain, and so many others were my dearest friends and greatest teachers.