Unless you know the code, it has no meaning.

For in every adult there dwells the child that was, and in every child there lies the adult that will be.

We are not meant to know the time or the nature of our deaths (for all of us secretly hope that we may be immortal).

He had quite liked the dwarfs. He often had no idea what they were talking about, but for a group of homicidal, class-obsessed small people, they were really rather good fun.

He became merely the broken statue of a beast, now without another's fear to animate it.

Once upon a time – for that is how all stories should begin – there was a boy who lost his mother.

My feelings for Raphael are mine, and mine alone. I loved him, and that is all anyone needs to know. The rest is no business of any man's.

And, in the darkness, David closed his eyes as all that was lost was found again.

These were the tales that echoed in the head long after the books that contained them were cast aside.

The stories in books hate the stories contained in newspapers.

Story!" The dwarf snorted. "You'll be talking about "happily ever after" next. Do we look happy? There's no happily ever after for us. Miserabily ever after, more like.

Whatever you do, do with love to be the success and to find the joy.

I exist in the paradise of my mind.

The author says that when an angry impulse is not immediately expressed, it turns to melancholy.

If you compare yourself with others you may become vain or bitter for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself.

You can never tell when a commercial space venture will suddenly become viable.

You can never have 'equality' between two things that are not equal by definition. And so, for example, you can have equality among 'people', but not between 'men' and 'women'.

Three years ago, the white hope of the theatre. Today, a mug. That's New York for you. Puts you on a Christmas tree, and then - the alley.

Socialism is the triumph of people's prejudices over their reason.

Nothing is irresistible. There is no feeling that is irresistible.