Keep out of this," Lucian said. "I'm not smiting anybody." "You're showing mercy." Catch-a-Tick nodded. "That's heroic, too. But not as good as smiting.

Fantasy is, I believe, the great nourisher of imagination. To paraphrase Einstein on how to develop intelligence in young people: Read fairy tales. Then read more fairy tales.

In the race of men is much greed and envy; but of truth, little.

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

We don't need to have just one favorite. We keep adding favorites. Our favorite book is always the book that speaks most directly to us at a particular stage in our lives. And our lives change. We have other favorites that give us what we most need at that particular time. But we never lose the old favorites. They're always with us. We just sort of accumulate them.

-"He loved her...It was noble of him. It was beautiful." -"It was stupid.

If a storyteller worried about the facts - my dear Lucian, how could he ever get at the truth?