Stop thinking of what you intend to do. Stop thinking of what you have just done. Then, stop thinking that you have stopped thinking of those things. Then you will find the Now, the time that stretches eternal, and is really the only time there is.

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

You can be the dead fish. I'll be the old stick

How different would our perception of reality be if... we discarded the mundane events that cannot coexist with our dreams?

That is the trick of good government. To make folk desire to live in such a way that there is no need for its intervention.

I healed. Not completely. A scar is never the same as good flesh, but it stops the bleeding.

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.