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

My family pleaded with me to forget literature and do something sensible, such as find some sort of useful work.

The Prydain Companion is more than a quick reference or handy glossary, though it is all of that as well. Instructive, certainly. But, like any good companion, a pleasure to be with over a long period of time.

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

For man to be worthy of any rank, he must strive first to be a man.

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

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