Eventually, I was sent to Wales and Germany, and after the war, to Paris.

Most of my books have been written in the form of fantasy.

After I saved some money, I quit work and went to a local college.

I decided that adventure was the best way to learn about writing.

My concern is how we learn to be genuine human beings.

It was 1943. The U.S. had already entered World War II, so I decided to join the army.

If writers learn more from their books than do readers, perhaps I may have begun to learn.

Shakespeare, Dickens, Mark Twain, and so many others were my dearest friends and greatest teachers.

When I was discharged, I attended the University of Paris and met a beautiful Parisian girl, Janine. We soon married and eventually returned to the States.

Eventually, I was sent to Wales and Germany, and after the war, to Paris.

I loved all the world's mythologies.

My family pleaded with me to forget literature and do something sensible, such as find some sort of useful work.

After seven years of writing - and working many jobs to support my family - I finally got published.

All that writers can do is keep trying to say what is deepest in their hearts.

We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself.

King Arthur was one of my heroes - I played with a trash can lid for a knightly shield and my uncle's cane for the sword Excalibur.

Using the device of an imaginary world allows me in some strange way to go to the central issues - it's one of many ways to express feelings about real people, about real human relationships.

My parents were horrified when I told them I wanted to be an author.

There's this huge number of desperate people.

I decided that adventure was the best way to learn...

A crown is more discomfort than adornment. If you have learned that you have already learned much.

A crown is a pitiless master harsher than the staff of a pig keeper while a staff bears up a crown weighs down beyond the strength of any man to wear it lightly.

Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. Its a way of understanding it.

It is harsh enough for each man to bear his own wound. But he who leads bears the wounds of all who follow him.

The only thing a cat worries about is what's happening right now. As we tell the kittens, you can only wash one paw at a time.

Seize the day, whatever's in it to seize, before something comes along and seizes you.

The new Germany has the unquestionable right to hold its tongue between its teeth.

I think this could be our best victory over Germany since the war.

If the British Fleet were lost or captured, the Atlantic might be dominated by Germany, a power hostile to our way of life, controlling in that event most of the ships and shipbuilding facilities of Europe.

Most of the victims of Nazi aggression were before the war less well off than Germany. They should not be expected by Germany to bear, unaided, the major costs of Nazi aggression.

Altogether apart from that, it would be a disgrace to us to make this bargain with Germany at the expense of France, a disgrace from which the good name of this country would never recover.

Just as a child respects his father even when he perceives his weaknesses and faults, so a German will not despise the old Germany which was once a symbol of greatness to him.

I also work with the regular orchestras in Munich, Germany and other similar orchestras.

Hitler's economic revolution in Germany had reduced financial considerations to a point where they played no role in economic or political decisions.

The biggest trade that Germany and Britain had was with each other, in the prewar period; I think I'm right in that. Two highly industrialized nations had the most trade with each other, and it wasn't tariff policies alone that made trade relations better for both of them.

This old Germany was partly defeated in its conflict with the progressive ideas of socialism, for it had given the people nothing that could serve as a successful alternative to socialism.

It was one thing to contain the Soviet Union in Europe because Britain, France, and Germany were all willing to join in. But will Japan and other Asian countries be willing to join in the containment of China?

I was a star in Italy, Austrailia, Germany and Japan before the American stations ever paid attention at all.

The role of Italy and of Austria has diminished as has that of France and Britain; Germany and Japan have suffered catastrophically.

The SA is, and remains, Germany's destiny.

It is important to remember that some of the most serious thinkers once thought that democracy was not compatible with the cultures of Germany, Italy, Japan, Latin America and Russia.

I love Germany so dearly that I hope there will always be two of them.

We... our war began September the 3rd 1939, with the invasion of Poland by Germany, and thereafter the great state of danger in England at that time, with the bombings, necessitated the evacuation of children.

There are writers in Germany who drink the Absolute like water; and there are books in which even the dogs make references to the Infinite.

I was the very first athlete in East Germany allowed to go professional.

It was fear. He didn't want to see a united Germany. Stalin made it clear to me - I spoke with him many times - that they couldn't afford to let Germany build up again. They'd been invaded twice, and he wasn't willing to have it happen again.

I was signed when I was 19 years old, in 1980. I went to Germany and France. Seeing the world at that time was just an awesome experience for a teenager.

We favor the economic unification of Germany. If complete unification cannot be secured, we shall do everything in our power to secure the maximum possible unification.

And so we went away to play, and we'd come back to Liverpool. And while we were doing this - 'cuz we did it for two years. And then we'd go to Germany, and that's where I met the Beatles.