I decided that adventure was the best way to learn about writing.

...alas, raising a young lady is a mystery even beyond an enchanter's skill.

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.

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

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.

Seize the day, whatever's in it to seize, before something comes along and seizes you.

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