And think what worrying does: has anyone ever added a single hour to the length of his life by worrying about it?

Because the great thing about fairy tales and folk tales is that there is no authentic text. It's not like the text of Paradise Lost or James Joyce's Ulysses, and you have to adhere to that exact text.

The Christian religion is a very powerful and convincing mistake.

All stories teach, whether the storyteller intends them to or not. They teach the world we create. They teach the morality we live by. They teach it much more effectively than moral precepts and instructions.

I am a strong believer in the tyranny, the dictatorship, the absolute authority of the writer.

We measure the value of a civilized society by the number of #‎ libraries it opens, not the number it closes down.

I know whom we must fight...it is the Church. For all its history, it's tried to suppress and control every natural impulse.That is what the Church does, and every church is the same: control, destroy, obliterate every good feeling.