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.

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

To be radical, an empiricism must neither admit into its constructions any element that is not directly experienced, nor exclude from them any element that is directly experienced.

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.

It is only to the individual that a soul is given.

When you look at a corporation, just like when you look at a slave owner, you want to distinguish between the institution and the individual. So slavery, for example, or other forms of tyranny, are inherently monstrous. The individuals participating in them may be the nicest guys you can imagine.

When I did ‚Bird,‘ it was a surprise to some people, first because I wasn’t in it and second because most of the films I’d been doing were cop movies or westerns or adventure films, so to be doing one about Charlie Parker, who was a great influence on American music, was a great thrill for me.

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.

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.

Morality arose largely as an empirical defence of the individual and society. Ever since intelligent beings began to be in contact, and consequently in friction, they have felt the need to guard themselves against each other’s encroachments.

It’s all make believe, isn’t it?

The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the wars of elements, The wrecks of matter, and the crush of worlds.

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

My imagination is a twisted place.

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.

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

‚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.

The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.

Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world… Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.

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.

Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual.

An idea, to be suggestive, must come to the individual with the force of revelation.

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.

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

Mysticism is the mistake of an accidental and individual symbol for an universal one.

Whether you come back by page or by the big screen, Hogwarts will always be there to welcome you home.

Animation offers a medium of story telling and visual entertainment which can bring pleasure and information to people of all ages everywhere in the world.

Fan Luv is a powerful positive movement. All over the world they come. It’s a force of luv.

We shall probably get nearest to the truth if we think of the conscious and personal psyche as resting upon the broad basis of an inherited and universal psychic disposition which is as such unconscious, and that our personal psyche bears the same relation to the collective psyche as the individual to society.

A public man must never forget that he loses his usefulness when he as an individual, rather than his policy, becomes the issue.

The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.

A safe fairyland is untrue to all worlds.

We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from… Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements.

The high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule.

Man as an individual is a genius. But men in the mass form the headless monster, a great, brutish idiot that goes where prodded.

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

In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.

Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

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

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.

Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike.

Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment; it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way.

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.

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

To the women and children, T stands for tender. To the bad guys and thugs, it stands for tough.

Let man live at a distance from God, and the universe remains neutral or hostile to him. But let man believe in God, and immediately all around him the elements, even the irksome, of the inevitable organize themselves into a friendly whole, ordered to the ultimate success of life.

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.

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.

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

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 updated my grilling app, iGrill, today and it now has Facebook integration that lets you see what other people are grilling right now around the world. Awesome.

If you want to get each individual’s honest opinion, you don’t want that opinion to be influenced by others who are present, much less allow a group to coordinate what they are going to say.

The ultimate authority must always rest with the individual’s own reason and critical analysis.

It makes sense that a witch lives in a swamp.

When Christ died, He died for you individually just as much as if you’d been the only man in the world.

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

A belief is purely an individual matter, and you cannot and must not organize it. If you do, it becomes dead, crystallized; it becomes a creed, a sect, a religion, to be imposed on others.

We continue to recognize the greater ability of some to earn more than others. But we do assert that the ambition of the individual to obtain for him a proper security is an ambition to be preferred to the appetite for great wealth and great power.

Most of my short stories are fantasy.

The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion.

All cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration, caricatures. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable.