The point is not to look back, but to look ahead to what you hope still to do.

It is harsh enough for each man to bear his own wound. But he who leads bears the wounds of all who follow him.

Who but lovers dream alike?

A man who claims to be fearless is an idiot or a liar.

If writers learn more from their books than do readers, perhaps I may have begun to learn.

Favorite books and authors while growing up - I'd need a book to list them all. For the sake of brevity: Shakespeare, Dickens, Mark Twain, Victor Hugo, world's mythology, the Arthurian legends. And the unabridged dictionary. And they're still my favorites. They get better each time I read them.

Ever since human beings learned to talk to each other, we've been fascinated with storytelling of every kind. Blessed (or cursed) with insatiable curiosity, we have to know what happens next.