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

Neither refuse to give help when it is needed,... nor refuse to accept it when it is offered.

I have never known courage to be judged by the length of a man's hair. Or, for the matter of that, whether he has any hair at all.

The muse in charge of fantasy wears good, sensible shoes. No foam-born Aphrodite, she vaguely resembles my old piano teacher, who was keen on metronomes.

He [the cat] liked to peep into the refrigerator and risk having his head shut in by the closing door. He also climbed to the top of the stove, discontinuing the practice after he singed his tail.

My family pleaded with me to forget literature and do something sensible, such as find some sort of useful work.

I came to fantasy fairly late. For some ten years, I had been happily writing fiction and non-fiction for adults. But I always loved fantasy, whether for adults or young people; and at that particular point in my life, I wanted to try it, to understand it, as part of the process of learning to be a writer. The results were beyond anything I could have foreseen. As I've said often and elsewhere, it was the most creative and liberating experience of my life.