I know that some readers think (The High King) should have ended differently. I cried for three days afterwards.

Child, child, do you not see? For each of us comes a time when we must be more than what we are.

If life is a loom, the pattern you weave is not so easily unraveled.

For man to be worthy of any rank, he must strive first to be a man.

Evil cannot be conquered by wishing.

Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it.

I think imagination is at the heart of everything we do. Scientific discoveries couldn't have happened without imagination. Art, music, and literature couldn't exist without imagination. And so anything that strengthens imagination, and reading certainly does that, can help us for the rest of our lives.