Genuinely good people are like that. The sun shines out of them. They warm you right through.

I was brought up, as a lot of kids are, on 'Aesop's Fables,' 'Brothers Grimm,' 'La Fontaine,' all those sorts of things. Hans Christian Andersen is a hero of mine.

I don't want to be separate from something that's important to me.

There's a nobility in his eye, a regal serenity about him. Does he not personify all that men try to be and never can be?

Characters are the key to a good book. It took me several novels to comprehend that.

We're much alike, bee, you and me," I said. "You may carry your pack underneath you and your rifle may stick out of your bottom. But you and me, bee, are much alike.

There's room for all sorts of magic and miracles in this world - that's what I think.