“Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new.”

“The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. This is the ...”

“Happiness is based on a just discrimination of what is necessary, what is neither necessary nor destructive, and what is destructive”

“The winds and seas, the powers of water and earth an light, all that these do, and all that the beasts and green things do, is well done, and rightly done. All these act within the Equilibrium. Fro...”

“I had forgotten how much light there is in the world, till you gave it back to me.”

“But it doesn't take a thousand men to open a door, my lord.""It might to keep it open.”

“Tell the story that's been growing in your heart, the characters you can't keep out of your head, the tale story that speaks to you, that pops into your head during your daily commute, that wakes y...”

“I write for the kid in me. . . . Often when Im working on a story, Ill find myself laughing at something my characters have done, or even being surprised at where theyve taken the story. Its as if ...”

“If there is a magic in story writing, and I am convinced there is, no one has ever been able to reduce it to a recipe that can be passed from one person to another.”