No, no," said Taran slowly, "It would be folly to think of attacking them." He smiled quickly at Fflewddur. "The bards would sing of us," he admitted, "but we'd be in no position to appreciate it.

And thus did an Assistant Pig-Keeper become High King of Prydain.

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.

If the pull of the outside world is strong, there is also a pull towards the human. The cat may disappear on its own errands, but sooner or later, it returns once again for a little while, to greet us with its own type of love.

Do you not believe that animals know grief and fear and pain? The world of men is not an easy one for them.

A taste for adventure is by no means a masculine monopoly.

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