I knew what happened in fairy tales. The strong survived while the weak were eaten alive.

...who I am to talk? I dream of rain.

From the time I could read, I found solace in my father's library...At the ages of ten and eleven and twelve I would have preferred to remain in the library...

Perhaps I was drawn to stories in which people found their true desires because I was a stranger to myself.

...never to rush something I was creating, but instead let it come into being as if it had a soul of it's own.

There is the outside of a story, and the inside of a story... One is the fruit and may be delicious, but the other is the seed.

But I was not a mouse. In the fields where I walked, I was much more interested in the actions of the hawks.

She understood love. What destroys you saves you, she had told me.

I only had access to him when we were together in the library, and I loved them both -the library and my father- equally and without question.

Although my father had never been there, I came to believe I would someday see that city for him.

Erre es korakas, Blinky!" Dionysus cursed. "I will have your soul!

I'll forget me.You forget you.We can be onetogether, happily.

It may be asserted without scruple, that no otherclass of dependants have had their character so entirely distorted from its natural proportions by their relations with their masters.

The real crucial link in the international exchange is the last three feet, which is bridged by personal contact, one person talking to another.

Man acquires wealth in proportion as he puts his labor to better account.

Running is my meditation, mind flush, cosmic telephone, mood elevator and spiritual communion.

They are a special breed-like normal accountants, but without the soppy sentimentality. These are the oncologists of market capitalism.

When you meet someone who is truly great, he makes you believe you can be great, too.

I don't see the big picture. I don't have a clue. But I know God does. I'm going to declare that, even if I don't feel it right now.

I had reached up and pulled the castle of dreams down around him.