The war had begun and nobody saw it. The storm was lowering and nobody knew it.

Remember: when people tell you something’s wrong or doesn’t work for them, they are almost always right. When they tell you exactly what they think is wrong and how to fix it, they are almost always wrong.

Often the adult book is not for you, not yet, or will only be for you when you're ready. But sometimes you will read it anyway, and you will take from it whatever you can. Then, perhaps, you will come back to it when you're older, and you will find the book has changed because you have changed as well, and the book is wiser, or more foolish, because you are wiser or more foolish than you were as a child.

The tongue is the most remarkable. For we use it both to taste out sweet wine and bitter poison, thus also do we utter words both sweet and sout with the same tongue.

When you love something you just don't want to stop talking about it.

I think most things are pretty magical, and that it's less a matter of belief than it is one of just stopping to notice.

Set your fantasies in the here and now and then, if challenged, claim to be writing Magical Realism.