I love the word 'fantasy'... but I love it for the almost infinite room it gives an author to play: an infinite playroom, of a sort, in which the only boundaries are those of the imagination. I do not love it for the idea of commercial fantasy. Commercial fantasy, for good or for ill, tends to drag itself through already existing furrows, furrows dug by J. R. R. Tolkien or Robert E. Howard, leaving a world of stories behind it, excluding so much. There was so much fine fiction, fiction allowing free reign to the imagination of the author, beyond the shelves of genre. That was what we wanted to read.

Radio, newspapers, they were normal parts of my life. In those days, you had to go somewhere to watch television and leave something to see it.

Robert Redford

There is only one time that is important -- NOW! It is the most important time because it is the only time hat we have any power.

Leo Tolstoy

My brother is one of my true heroes. Steady and sober where I am impulsive and emotional.

Mark McKinnon

It is easier to stay out than get out.

Mark Twain

We owe at least this much to future generations, from whom we have borrowed a fragile planet called Earth.

Maurice Strong

Of all the cankers of human happiness none corrodes with so silent, yet so baneful an influence, as indolence

Thomas Jefferson

Politics should share one purpose with religion: the steady emancipation of the individual through the education of his passions.

George Will

I simply want to live; to cause no evil to anyone but myself.

Leo Tolstoy

The only happy talkers are dandies who extract pleasure from the very perishability of their material and who would not be able to tolerate the isolation of all other forms of composition; for most good talkers, when they have run down, are miserable; they know that they have betrayed themselves, that they have taken material which should have a life of its own, to dispense it in noises upon the air.

Cyril Connolly

Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.

Clare Boothe Luce

One of the darkest, deepest shames so many of us mothers feel nowadays is our fear that we are Bad Mothers, that we are failing our children and falling far short of our own ideals.

Ayelet Waldman

From this point forth, we shall be leaving the firm foundation of fact and journeying together through the murky marshes of memory into thickets of wildest guesswork.

J.K. Rowling