Even in a fantasy realm, growing up is accomplished not without cost.

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?"

You know how chickens are, imagining the world coming to an end one moment, then pecking corn the next.

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

If I fret over tomorrow, I'll have little joy today.

...righteousness [is] always more believable when combined with dreariness.

All that writers can do is keep trying to say what is deepest in their hearts.