It is not settled happiness but momentary joy that glorifies the past.

A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.

Tea should be taken in solitude.

The universe rings true whenever you fairly test it.

You can do more with a castle in a story than with the best cardboard castle that ever stood on a nursery table.

I could never have gone far in any science because on the path of every science the lion Mathematics lies in wait for you.

Straight tribulation is easier to bear than tribulation which advertises itself as pleasure.

That is why I often find myself at such cross-purposes with the modern world: I have been a converted Pagan living among apostate Puritans.

I fancy that most of those who think at all have done a great deal of their thinking in the first fourteen years.

Divine punishment are also mercies.

We are the dead. We are the keepers of the stories. We hold the history of blood and promises. We are speaking. Are you listening? Will you hear?

Some mommies and daddies find it hard to acceptKids who are different to the normal set.

Blame is just a lazy person's way of making sense of chaos.

What you don't do is just say, "I've got all the ideas and all the knowledge, and listen to me."

Home is the best place to be sick in.

Successful innovations become conventions.

I love science fiction.

A definition is a sack of flour compressed into a thimble

He who has fostered the sweet poison of love by fondling it, finds it too late to refuse the yoke which he has of his own accord assumed.

I want the public to know that it will be an honor for me to meet them and spend a few special moments with all those who helped me through my filmed career.