I think of a book and a play, or a book and a movie, as two separate things - I don't think of it as my novel having a new life.

It is better to take many small steps in the right direction than to make a great leap forward only to stumble backward.

If only, if only," the woodpecker sighs, "The bark on the tree was as soft as the skies." While the wolf waits below, hungry and lonely, Crying to the moo-oo-oon, "If only, If only.

It was all because of his no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealinggreat-great-grandfather!

You need a reason to be sad. You don't need a reason to be happy.

The impossible is more believable than the highly improbable.

An idea doesn't die," said Trapp. "It exists somewhere, in its own dimension, waiting to be perceived.

He could hardly lift his spoon during breakfast, and then he was out on the lake, his spoon soon replaced by a shovel.

There is no lake at Camp Green Lake.

In a way, it made him sad. He couldn't help but think that a hundred times zero was still nothing.

Whenever you give someone a present or sing a holiday song, you're helping Santa Claus. To me, that's what Christmas is all about. Helping Santa Claus!

It's different now, like pushing the stop lever on my camera until nothing except the war can squeeze through the lens.

Like a dried up spring, magic trickled forth with less and less strength, until one day, the people awoke and there was simply no more to be had.

Where does the world’s zephyr strike from the view which let you to live the eternal moment of love other than in the Divine Light of sight?

On peut dire que son esprit brille aux dépens de sa mémoire (One may say that his wit shines by the help of his memory).

I like to see what future generations are thinking about.

I think that Harold MacMillan is a very intelligent man, who, as so often happens in politics, achieved supreme power too late.

You may not do well, necessarily, up front, and in order to be the best, you've got to work hard.

I love kids, but they are a tough audience.

Casting your voice out into the future is very beautiful to me.

Part of your mission in life then must be to share your gifts with as many people as possible. That means being willing to play big.