Fantasy has a better chance of lasting than a lot of other things. The Hobbit and the Narnia books, they seem to get handed down father to son, mother to daughter. Because they're set in a fantasy world, they can remain relevant.

Why don't we all just go crazy when we know were going to croak? Because the mind's a monkey. You put things in departments and you go ahead. You go on and plan for the future and assume that the future's going to work out okay. Yet we know that sooner or later we're all going to be eating worms, whether it's fifty years or sixty. It might be tomorrow. It might happen today.

A good reputation is something that must be earned, yet can never be bought.

In the end we are all caught in devices of our own making. I believe that. In the end we are all caught.

I go where the story leads. And, sometimes, it is a little bit outrageous. And I relish that. I sort of want to be as much on the edge as I can.

and now, all these years later, it seem to him that the most horrible fact of human existence was that broken hearts mended

If it's ka it'll come like a wind, and your plans will stand before it no more than a barn before a cyclone