My concern is how we learn to be genuine human beings.

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?"

That is why your sacrifice was all the more difficult. You chose to be a hero not through enchantment but through your own manhood.

Trust your luck, Taran Wanderer. But don't forget to put out your nets!

We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself.

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

Is there not glory enough in living the days given to us? You should know there is adventure in simply being among those we love and the things we love, and beauty, too.