Where his boyhood retreat had been a cave hewn for one, it now accommodated two. He was suddenly two and it amazed and delighted, causing a stir in the pit of him, a kind of fibrillation.

Hopes are so well constructed, so monstrously dashed!

You know how there are words that never really—they are never really quite right. You can't quite trust them. Use them. You know. Without p

I need to tell you a story.'What

I need to tell you a story, a tale of fate and emergence.

There's something quite special about a granny's house. Even if ten or twenty or thirty years go by, you never forget how it smells.

I'm not afraid to look like an idiot on TV.

If you live your life the right way, you work hard, you go about things the right way, eventually something good's going to come of it.

It certainly seems like a good idea to talk about Heaven, meditate about Heaven and read about Heaven, because, after all, that's where we're going to spend eternity.

We should have had socialism already, but for the socialists, am quite willing to drop the name if dropping it will help me to get the thing.

At banquets surfeit not, but fill; partake, and retire; and eat not again till you crave.

I wake up every day trying to give something back to you that you can rock to and be proud of.

Tomorrow is always another day to make things right.

I think I've been really lucky to keep my career so varied, and to be open. There's safety in repetition, but there's also a trap there.

The difference between science fiction and fantasy … is simply this: science fiction has rivets and fantasy has trees.