I loved all the world's mythologies.

Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it.

We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself.

Using the device of an imaginary world allows me in some strange way to go to the central issues - it's one of many ways to express feelings about real people, about real human relationships.

Craftsmanship isn't like water in an earthen pot, to be taken out by the dipperful until it's empty. No, the more drawn out the more remains.

Keep reading. It's one of the most marvelous adventures that anyone can have.

He [the cat] liked to peep into the refrigerator and risk having his head shut in by the closing door. He also climbed to the top of the stove, discontinuing the practice after he singed his tail.

The only thing a cat worries about is what's happening right now. As we tell the kittens, you can only wash one paw at a time.

Is there worse evil than that which goes in the mask of good?

Seize the day, whatever's in it to seize, before something comes along and seizes you.

Thinking is a bit uncomfortable, but you'll get used to it. A matter of time and practice.

So much of control is not authoritative action but mindful waiting.

I have tasted freedom. I will not give up that which I have tasted.

While we breathe, we will hope.

They kill people here who stand up for their rights The system's just too damned corrupt It's always the same, the name of the game Is who do you know higher up

I chose Journalism by default. I always loved TV, and I had no idea what else to do, so I studied what interested me.

Believe me, you need good people if you want to make good players.

All wars are planned by old men in council rooms apart.

[My mother] called [my voice] the gift.

For me it remains an open question whether [this work] pertains to the realm of mathematics or to that of art.