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I loved fantasy, but I particularly loved the stories in which somebody got out of where they were and into somewhere better - as in the 'Chronicles Of Narnia,' 'The Wizard Of Oz,' 'The Phantom Tollbooth,' the 'Dungeons &amp Dragons' cartoon on Saturday morning in the '80s. →

Parents need all the help they can get. The strongest as well as the most fragile family requires a vital network of social supports. →

Art is a lie that makes us realize truth. →

Laughter is not a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is the best ending for one. →

My idea of an amusement park story is getting adventurers to go tour environmental disaster areas. After all, if the entire Great Barrier Reef gets killed, which seems like an extremely lively possibility, what are you going to do with all that rotting limestone? →

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies. →

Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness. →

I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes, so live not in your yesterdays, no just for tomorrow, but in the here and now. Keep moving and forget the post mortems and remember, no one can get the jump on the future. →

When you retire, it's a place in life, a part of the journey. You just don't quit work you develop an attitude where you can do what you please. →