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

When I was discharged, I attended the University of Paris and met a beautiful Parisian girl, Janine. We soon married and eventually returned to the States.

Fantasy, in addition to being great storytelling, moves us at some unique and profound level. It has, I think, the power of mythology, or ancient dreams we have always and forever shared. In it, we find our real world and our real selves.

A taste for adventure is by no means a masculine monopoly.

...Writings can be stolen, or changed, or used for evil purposes. But isn't the risk worth taking? The more people who share knowledge, the greater safeguard for it. Isn't there more danger in ignorance than knowledge?

There's this huge number of desperate people.

We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself.