You seek a false comfort when you demand that I define myself for you with words. Words do not contain or define any person. A heart can, if it is willing.

When we come back to fantasy, I think we're actually coming back to the real bedrock of storytelling. Our national or international genre really is fantasy, if you think about the worldwide myths and legends and stories that we all know, whether we're talking about Little Red Riding Hood or the Arabian Nights or Noah's Ark or Hercules. These are stories that cross many cultures in much the same way that dragons cross many cultures.

To be part of a family, or any community, is to have duties and responsibility, to be bound by the rules of that group.

For, "Yes," he had sighed on his dying breath, and all knew that was the ultimate prayer one could offer to life.

The man who must brag for himself knows that no one else will

Home is people. Not a place. If you go back there after the people are gone, then all you can see is what is not there any more.

Boredom is vastly underrated. Boredom means that nothing is trying to kill you every day.