Dealing with the impossible, fantasy can show us what may be really possible. If there is grief, there is the possibility of consolation; if hurt, the possibility of healing; and above all, the curative power of hope. If fantasy speaks to us as we are, it also speaks to us as we might be

Two cats can live as cheaply as one, and their owner has twice as much fun

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.

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

The journey is the treasure.

...righteousness [is] always more believable when combined with dreariness.

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