A safe fairyland is untrue to all worlds.

I’m half living my life between reality and fantasy at all times. It’s best not to ask questions and just enjoy.

Precaution is better than cure.

The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life.

Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.

If I pick up a book with spaceships on the cover, I want spaceships. If I see one with dragons, I want there to be dragons inside the book. Proper labeling. Ethical labeling. I don’t want to open up my cornflakes and find that they’re full of pebbles… You need to respect the reader enough not to call it something it isn’t.

The ‚peace movement‘ exists only in the fantasies of the paranoid.

I’m half living my life between reality and fantasy at all times.

If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities.

I loved being Maleficent. I was quite sad to put my staff down and put my horns away because somehow, she just lives in a different world.

Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.

Fantasy is an exercise bicycle for the mind. It might not take you anywhere, but it tones up the muscles that can. Of course, I could be wrong.

I think when people mean that Discworld books have become darker they really mean the series is growing up. In ‚The Colour of Magic‘ most of the city is set alight. It’s a joke, in much the same way that the Earth is destroyed almost at the start of Douglas Adams’s ‚The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy.‘

There is always safety in valor.

I just want my family to be safe. Because I am sometimes polarizing, I fear for their safety.

The coward only threatens when he is safe.

I used to pretend that my Peugeot driving to the gym in the rain in Dublin was a Ferrari on the Vegas strip.

Fables should be taught as fables, myths as myths, and miracles as poetic fantasies. To teach superstitions as truths is a most terrible thing. The child mind accepts and believes them, and only through great pain and perhaps tragedy can he be in after years relieved of them.

I want the concentration and the romance, and the worlds all glued together, fused, glowing: have no time to waste any more on prose.

Fantasy is uni-age. You can start it in the creche, and it follows you to death.

Mission presidents hold keys of responsibility for the welfare, safety, and success of their missionaries.

Those Dutchmen had hardly any imagination or fantasy, but their good taste and their scientific knowledge of composition were enormous.

It’s going to be a season with lots of accidents, and I’ll risk saying that we’ll be lucky if something really serious doesn’t happen.

First, how do we give everyone a fair shot at opportunity and security in this new economy? Second, how do we make technology work for us, and not against us – especially when it comes to solving urgent challenges like climate change? Third, how do we keep America safe and lead the world without becoming its policeman?

Little Red Riding Hood was my first love. I felt that if I could have married Little Red Riding Hood, I should have known perfect bliss.

If you don’t feel safe as a child, you can’t learn.

The purpose is clear. It is safety with solvency. The country is entitled to both.

Hearing voices no one else can hear isn’t a good sign, even in the wizarding world.

I think that a good mountaineer is usually a sensible mountaineer.

We will be remembered only if we give to our younger generation a prosperous and safe India, resulting out of economic prosperity coupled with civilizational heritage.

I ride my bike almost every day here in New York. It’s getting safer to do so, but I do have to be fairly alert when riding on the streets as opposed to riding on the Hudson River bike path or similar protected lanes.

Many people have been getting too casual about climbing Everest. I forecast a disaster many times.

We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm.

Most of my short stories are fantasy.

He that’s secure is not safe.

Go not to the Elves for counsel, for they will say both no and yes.

Distrust and caution are the parents of security.

We must do everything in our power to cease the behaviour that makes children everywhere feel afraid.

I never expected anyone to take care of me, but in my wildest dreams and juvenile yearnings, I wanted the house with the picket fence from June Allyson movies. I knew that was yearning like one yearns to fly.

I would like to be remembered as a guy who had a set of priorities, and was willing to live by those priorities. In terms of accomplishments, my biggest accomplishment is that I kept the country safe amidst a real danger.

Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions.

‚The Lion‘ all began with a picture of a faun carrying an umbrella and parcels in a snowy wood. This picture had been in my mind since I was about sixteen. Then one day, when I was about forty, I said to myself, ‚Let’s try to make a story about it.‘

The blurring of fantasy and reality is something that the Japanese herald in their life, in their day-to-day commercialism.

All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination.

I’ve always hated the danger part of climbing, and it’s great to come down again because it’s safe.

I have often been asked what I think about at the moment of take-off. Of course, no pilot sits and feels his pulse as he flies. He has to be part of the machine. If he thinks of anything but the task in hand, then trouble is probably just around the corner.

My doorman is more important to me than any head of any company. He keeps us safe.

Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it’s a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope, and that enables you to laugh at life’s realities.

Even though the risks of death are higher driving than flying, many people would rather drive simply because they feel they have more control driving. The facts are that only a few hundred people die a year flying, and 44,000 are killed a year driving.

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

People love westerns worldwide. There’s something fantasy-like about an individual fighting the elements. Or even bad guys and the elements. It’s a simpler time. There’s no organized laws and stuff.

What is a television apparatus to man, who has only to shut his eyes to see the most inaccessible regions of the seen and the never seen, who has only to imagine in order to pierce through walls and cause all the planetary Baghdads of his dreams to rise from the dust.

In crises the most daring course is often safest.

There are no small accidents on this circuit.

As a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, I know that the men and women of our intelligence community put their lives on the line every day, and they do very dangerous work to keep our country safe.

So comes snow after fire, and even dragons have their ending!

I like Aurora, ‚Sleeping Beauty,‘ because she’s just sleeping and looking pretty and waiting for boys to come kiss her. Sounds like a good life – lots of naps and cute boys fighting dragons to come kiss you.

People ask me if there are going to be stories of Harry Potter as an adult. Frankly, if I wanted to, I could keep writing stories until Harry is a senior citizen, but I don’t know how many people would actually want to read about a 65 year old Harry still at Hogwarts playing bingo with Ron and Hermione.

Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.

Do not meddle in the affairs of Wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.

My imagination is a twisted place.