You'll drift apart, it's true, but you'll be out in the open, part of everything alive again.

There will be days when the stuff is not flowing freely. What you do then is MAKE IT UP!

A story, to me, has a particular sprite, like the angel of the spirit of that story - and it's my job to attend to what it wants to do. When I tell the story of Cinderella, the sprite does not want me to make it into an allegory of the fall of communism. The sprite would be unhappy if I did that.

Long before writing, people were telling each other stories and the audiobook goes all the way back to that tradition.

But we can trust him Roger, I swear," she said with a final effort,"Because he's Will.

You speak of destiny as if it was fixed.

He meant the Kingdom was over, the Kingdom of Heaven, it was all finished. We shouldn't live as if it mattered more than this life in this world, because where we are is always the most important place.... We have to be all those difficult things like cheerful and kind and curious and patient, and we've got to study and think and work hard, all of us, in all our different worlds, and then we'll build... The Republic of Heaven.