Freedom is not a license to act but a license to exercise free choices in any given situation.

Whenever you go on a trip to visit foreign lands or distant places, remember that they are all someone's home and backyard.

The act of sharing with readers was at first too much of an intimate thing. But it evolved into an intense necessity to share.

Fantasy, at its best, is balm for the soul. But it is faulty logic to assume that balm is necessarily mind-numbing anesthesia.

I tell the story to you now, but in each telling the story itself changes a little, changes direction, and that in turn changes you and me. So be very careful not only in how you repeat it but in how you remember it, goslings. More often than you realize it, the world is shaped by two things -- stories told and the memories they leave behind.

Passion and courtesy are two polar opposite traits that serve to balance each other into a full-blooded whole. Without socialization, passion is a crude barbarian, and without passion, the elegant and polite are dead. Allow both passion and courtesy into your life in equal measure, and be complete.

There's a difference between playing and playing games. The former is an act of joy, the latter — an act.