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.

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.

You will never know the feeling of a driver when winning a race. The helmet hides feelings that cannot be understood.

There is no other who experiences your thoughts or your feelings.

I think one's feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.

Kinsey would identify himself with Galileo in moments of feelings of persecution.

As a small child, I felt in my heart two contradictory feelings, the horror of life and the ecstasy of life.

As an alcoholic, you have no appreciation for your wife or your children's feelings, but I'm making up for that now. I'm winning my children's trust back.

A lot of the stuff that I do with Betty is in the eyes. A lot of the feelings that I evoke with her are unspoken, so that's been fun to play with.

Isn't it strange that its easier to be gentle with the feelings of people we care less about than those of our children, whom we love so much?

I love the line of Flaubert about observing things very intensely. I think our duty as writers begins not with our own feelings, but with the powers of observing.

A date once leaned in to kiss me, and he ended up kissing my cheek. He was a little offended, but I didn't want to kiss him just to not hurt his feelings.

Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts?

A poem might be defined as thinking about feelings - about human feelings and frailties.

Whether he is an artist or not, the photographer is a joyous sensualist, for the simple reason that the eye traffics in feelings, not in thoughts.

We have listened here to the delegates who have recalled the terrible human suffering, and the great material destruction of the late war in the Pacific. It is with feelings of sorrow that we recall the part played in that catastrophic human experience by the old Japan.

In a novel, my feelings and sense of outrage can find a broader means of expression which would be more symbolic and applicable to many European countries.

Everything I do is blown out of proportion. It really hurts my feelings.

The story line was done in a way that's organic and was doled out very slowly in little bites. We think that's authentic for this character, that her feelings are very deeply buried or she never felt them.

I'd much rather be in a movie that people have really strong feelings about than one that makes a hundred million dollars but you can't remember because it's just like all the others.

The blues comes right back to a person's feelings, to his daily activities in life. But rich people don't know nothing about the blues, please believe me.

Being an artist is dragging your innermost feelings out, giving a piece of yourself, no matter in which art form, in which medium.

Get up from that piano. You hurtin' its feelings.

But while human liberty has engaged the attention of the enlightened, and enlisted the feelings of the generous of all civilized nations, may we not enquire if this liberty has been rightly understood?

You show your vulnerability through relationships, and those feelings are your soft spot. You need to have a soft spot.