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

After seven years of writing - and working many jobs to support my family - I finally got published.

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

That is why your sacrifice was all the more difficult. You chose to be a hero not through enchantment but through your own manhood.

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.

All agreed that Quickset was the cleverest cat in the world. And, since Quickset had the same opinion, it was surely true.

A shade of sorrow passed over Taliesin's face. 'There are those,' he said gently, 'who must first learn loss, despair, and grief. Of all paths to wisdom, this is the cruelest and longest. Are you one who must follow such a way? This even I cannot know. If you are, take heart nonetheless. Those who reach the end do more than gain wisdom. As rough wool becomes cloth, and crude clay a vessel, so do they change and fashion wisdom for others, and what they give back is greater than what they won.