King Constantine IX of Regia had been killed three times and was bored with it. He wanted a bath.

I'm convinced that imagination is at the heart of everything we do - in art, science, even astrophysics and higher mathematics. Imagination leads us to ask, "What if?"

If life is a loom, the pattern you weave is not so easily unraveled.

I think imagination is at the heart of everything we do. Scientific discoveries couldn't have happened without imagination. Art, music, and literature couldn't exist without imagination. And so anything that strengthens imagination, and reading certainly does that, can help us for the rest of our lives.

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

A crown is more discomfort than adornment. If you have learned that, you have already learned much.

Trust your luck, Taran Wanderer. But don't forget to put out your nets!