Some people prefer eating dessert to the main course. These people have never been really hungry.

I'll tell you a secret. Old storytellers never die. They disappear into their own story.

If you have never changed your mind about some fundamental tenet of your belief, if you have never questioned the basics, and if you have no wish to do so, then you are likely ignorant.

Patience is not a virtue. It is an achievement.

Don't let a loud few determine the nature of the sound. It makes for poor harmony and diminishes the song.

The nutcracker sits under the holiday tree, a guardian of childhood stories. Feed him walnuts and he will crack open a tale.

Fantasy is not the literature of subversion of the status quo but of 'awakening to' the status quo.