Stop longing.You poison today’s ease, reaching always for tomorrow.

I began attempting to write for children under the mistaken assumption that writing for children was easy.

Perhaps having the courage to find a better path is having the courage to risk making new mistakes.

Besides, if there were no dragons of flesh and blood and fire, whence would come the idea for these stone carvings?

Most prisons are of our own making. A man makes his own freedom, too.

The truth, I discovered, is a tree that grows as a man gains access to experience. A child sees the acorn of his daily life, but a man looks back on the oak.

King Shrewd is expecting me, rather he isn't expecting me, and that is precisely why I must go to him now.