And remember, no matter where you go, there you are.

Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.

I have no doubt that you are more than capable of bringing the Monsean queen and my son and the rest of my sons and a hundred Nanderan kittens through an onslaught of howling raiders if you chose to.

Literature is still doing the same job that mythology did earlier, but filling in its huge cloudy shapes with sharper lights and deeper shadows.

Faith means that it doesn't matter what happens. You can trust that somebody is watching. Trust that somebody will make it all right.

Nothing could be older than the daily news, nothing deader than yesterday's newspaper.

If I do three movies in a year, I don't feel like acting ever again.

Goldfish are flowers ... flowers that move.

The theater of the mind is impossible to compete with, and I like the idea that with a few suggestions, each reader forms in his or her own mind what a character or a place looks like.

I consider myself a pretty hardworking guy and I like to play hard, play physical and play well defensively too.

If you're fascinated by America, you'll be fascinated by family.