"Courage is found in unlikely places."

"I have found that it is the small everyday deeds of ordinary folk that keep the darkness at bay. Small acts of kindness and love."

"An author cannot of course remain wholly unaffected by his experience, but the desire to write has to be given to him, and the means to write depends on his power to bring it out of himself."

"Still, I am glad that I am not an Orc."

"Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a man is in prison, he will escape if he can and go home. If he cannot escape, he will think and talk about escape. If he cannot do that, he will think a…"