A safe fairyland is untrue to all worlds.

All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost; the old that is strong does not wither, deep roots are not reached by the frost.

It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.

Distrust and caution are the parents of security.

Precaution is better than cure.

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.

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.

The palace is not safe when the cottage is not happy.

Being a stunt coordinator, I have to take care not only of myself but I have to make sure everyone is safe.

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.

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.‘

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

We could definitely make a flying car – but that’s not the hard part. The hard part is, how do you make a flying car that’s super safe and quiet? Because if it’s a howler, you’re going to make people very unhappy.

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.

Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.

When you step on the brakes your life is in your foot’s hands.

The coward only threatens when he is safe.

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

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

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

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

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

To keep oneself safe does not mean to bury oneself.

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

We fear that this moment will end, that we won’t get what we need, that we will lose what we love, or that we will not be safe. Often, our biggest fear is the knowledge that one day our bodies will cease functioning. So even when we are surrounded by all the conditions for happiness, our joy is not complete.

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

‚Discworld‘ is taking something that you know is ridiculous and treating it as if it is serious, to see if something interesting happens when you do so.

I have a very strict gun control policy: if there’s a gun around, I want to be in control of it.

Lightning is something which, again, we would rather avoid.

I should like to save the Shire, if I could – though there have been times when I thought the inhabitants too stupid and dull for words, and have felt that an earthquake or an invasion of dragons might be good for them.

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.

It is often safer to be in chains than to be free.

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

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

‚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.‘

I don’t think anybody in America ought to be scared.

In crises the most daring course is often safest.

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

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.

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.

The safety of the people shall be the highest law.

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 hate to tell you this, but you will never actually go to a galaxy far, far away and encounter Darth Vader. That’s science fiction; it isn’t going to happen.

Silence is safer than speech.

It is plain indeed that in spite of later estrangement Hobbits are relatives of ours: far nearer to us than Elves, or even than Dwarves. Of old they spoke the languages of Men, after their own fashion, and liked and disliked much the same things as Men did. But what exactly our relationship is can no longer be discovered.

If you are going to write, say, fantasy – stop reading fantasy. You’ve already read too much. Read other things; read westerns, read history, read anything that seems interesting, because if you only read fantasy and then you start to write fantasy, all you’re going to do is recycle the same old stuff and move it around a bit.

There are no small accidents on this circuit.

When I was a kid, I read the science-fiction shelves, and I read the fantasy shelves.

Man, wear your seat belts. That’s all I can tell everybody. You never know.

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

In a country with millions of people and cars going everywhere, the enemy is going to get a car bomb out there once in awhile.

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

For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.

Before I do a stunt, I have to make sure it is safe.

I sell escapism.

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.

Tolkien is eminently filmable, I think. ‚The Lord of the Rings‘ is intensely… landscaped. But ‚Discworld‘ is about dialogue, which is one reason why it might be hard to film.

Clothes if they are not well cut, you can kill nobody. A building poorly built can kill people. It’s a much more difficult work. I would not compare myself with that.

Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.