Fish are not the best authority on water.

Time may heal all wounds, but it does not erase the scars.

Literature is a textually transmitted disease, normally contracted in childhood.

A book is a wonderful present. Though it may grow worn, it will never grow old.

Childrens books change lives. Stories pour into the hearts of children and help make them what they become.

Love the writing, love the writing, love the writing... the rest will follow.

It's never perfect when I write it down the first time, or the second time, or the fifth time. But it always gets better as I go over it and over it.

Take a step, breathe in the world, give it out again in story, poem, song, art.

Ideas are the cheapest part of the writing. They are free. The hard part is what you do with ideas you've gathered.

Language helps develp life as surely as it reflects life. It is a most important part of our human condition.

Stories," he'd said, his voice low and almost husky, "we are made up of stories. And even the one's that seem the most like lies can be our deepest hidden truths.

God is a cloud from which rain fell.

I would talk in iambic pentameter if it were easier.

Life has its rhythm ad we have ours. They’re designed to coexist in harmony, so that when we do what is ours to do and otherwise let life be, we garner acceptance and serenity. (285)

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I've learned it's always better to have a small percentage of a big success, than a hundred percent of nothing.

And hail their queen, fair regent of the night.

Your life is going to be determined by your prayer life.

They want to derail peace because they want to plunge Northern Ireland back into armed conflict.

We gain no easier advantage than by relentlessly pursuing our goal while others pursue an advantage.

As long as space abides and as long as the world abides, so long may I abide, destroying the sufferings of the world.