Hope is an essential thread in the fabric of all fantasies, an Ariadne's thread to guide us out of the labyrinth ... Human beings have always needed hope, and surely now more than ever.

True allegiance is only given willingly.

Evil cannot be conquered by wishing.

-"He loved her...It was noble of him. It was beautiful." -"It was stupid.

Keep out of this," Lucian said. "I'm not smiting anybody." "You're showing mercy." Catch-a-Tick nodded. "That's heroic, too. But not as good as smiting.

Eventually, I was sent to Wales and Germany, and after the war, to Paris.

My parents were horrified when I told them I wanted to be an author.