If we are not willing to fail we will never accomplish anything. All creative acts involve the risk of failure.

Only a fool is not afraid.

If we accept that we have at least an iota of free will, we cannot throw it back the moment things go wrong. Like a human parent, God will help us when we ask for help, but in a way that will make us more mature, more real, not in a way that will diminish us.

If our language is watered down, then mankind becomes less human, and less free.

I hope that I will never forget the salvific power of joyful laughter.

Like all great fantasists, he has taught me about life, life in eternity rather than chronology, life in that time in which we are real.

A truly great work of art breaks beyond the bounds of the period and culture in which it is created, so final judgement on a current book has to be deferred until it can be seen outside this present moment.