If you're not ready to die, then how can you live?

There are few joys to compare with the telling of a well-told tale.

The few wonders of the world only exist while there are those with the sight to see them.

The problem with children is that you have to put up with their parents.

I want to touch the heart of the world and make it smile.

The fey wonders of the world only exist while there are those with the sight to see them.

If you're not ready to die, then how can you live?

The road leading to a goal does not separate you from the destination; it is essentially a part of it.

Stone walls confine a tinker; cold iron binds a witch; but a musician's music can never be fettered, for it lives first in her heart and mind.

Not everything has to mean something. Some things just are.

Why did men worship in churches, locking themselves away in the dark, when the world lay beyond its doors in all its real glory?

Life is like art. You have to work hard to keep it simple and still have meaning.

As far as I'm concerned, the only difference between fact and what most people call fiction is about fifteen pages in the dictionary.

When all's said and done, all roads lead to the same end. So it's not so much which road you take, as how you take it.

Without mysteries, life would be very dull indeed. What would be left to strive for if everything were known?

Witchery is merely a word for what we are all capable of.

One expected growth, change; without it, the world was less, the well of inspiration dried up, the muses fled.

The best artists know what to leave out.

A long time ago a bunch of people reached a general consensus as to what's real and what's not and most of us have been going along with it ever since.

Remember the quiet wonders. The world has more need of them than it has for warriors.

I think you're all mad. But that's part and parcel of being an artistic genius, isn't it?

It's good to have mysteries. It reminds us that there's more to the world than just making do and having a bit of fun.

The thing with pretending you're in a good mood is that sometimes you can.

I'm not Chinese. I thrive in interesting times.

Don't forget - no one else sees the world the way you do, so no one else can tell the stories that you have to tell.

I've always known and been interested in people who are a little bit off the norm. I like to call attention to the idea that they are there, that they are real people, not invisible.

Often the magical elements in my books are standing in for elements of the real world, the small and magical-in-their-own-right sorts of things that we take for granted and no longer pay attention to, like the bonds of friendship that entwine our own lives with those of other people and places.

The beginning of a friendship, the fact that two people out of the thousands around them can meet and connect and become friends, seems like a kind of magic to me. But maintaining a friendship requires work. I don't mean that as a bad thing. Good art requires work as well.

When one of my characters becomes aware of a magical element, it might be because the world is wider than we assume it to be, but it might also be a reminder to pay attention to what is here already, hidden only because it's been forgotten.

Politics means competition, especially in senior positions. If you don't know that, you're not especially suited to politics.

If I was in a room with a bunch of skinheads talking about racism, then I would be disturbed, but after we finished a take, we were normal people again.

Both of my parents had a change of career. My mum was a nurse, and now she's a college lecturer.

But Contra la Puerta was done mostly in the opposite way, starting with sounds and melodies.

At least, in this situation, I know my chances of coming back could be slim because of the young talent the Yankees do have.

Candor is a proof of both a just frame of mind, and of a good tone of breeding. It is a quality that belongs equally to the honest man and to the gentleman.

The thing is if you follow whatever meal you have with Coke it eats up the other things. It helps with the digestion of it.

I really detest movies like Indecent Proposal and Pretty Woman because they send a message to women that sleeping with a rich man is the ultimate goal and really that's such a small part of it.

Even now, at 82 years old, if I don't learn something every day, you know what I think? It's a day lost. Now, I don't practice every day. I just take the guitar, swear at it. But I should be swearing at myself. But I fool with music. I'm doing something musically all the time. And my ears are wide open for anything I can hear.

I don't think you need to spend $40 million to be creepy. The best horror films are the ones that are much less endowed.

I think it's important to note that after the airstrikes began in Iraq and Syria, ISIS began a very aggressive social media campaign calling for these types of attacks, these lone wolf attacks.

One characteristic of modern poetry is that arrangement of parts which strikes many people as being violent or obscure.

I think sandals should be burnt. I hate them - purge them!

There can be no companion better than a brother and there can be no friend better than a sister.

While they would have provided financial support if I had needed it, the greatest support my parents gave was emotional, psychological.

After I retired, I was in Aspen, and after two months of being at home, I started to go nuts. I needed to go somewhere because that was the longest I never travelled.

Quality health care services must be accessible and affordable for all - not just those in certain ZIP codes or tax brackets.

People always say golfers don't smile. But there is so much psychology in golf so we have to be a bit robotic.

I think that Valentine's Day is only as good as you want it to be. You know, I don't think it should be anything fancy, nothing crazy. As long as you're spending time with that person that's special, I think that's a great Valentine's Day.

Well, I have a Norwegian father who emigrated to America in the 1950s, and he still speaks with varying degrees of an accent. Over my lifetime my ear has been well-tuned to that accent. Any first generation kid has that wonderful gift from their parents.