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A Crown Is A Pitiless Master, Harsher Than The Staff Of A Pig-keeper; While A Staff Bears Up, A Crown Weighs Down, Beyond The Strength Of Any Man To Wear It Lightly.

Long Ago I Yearned To Be A Hero Without Knowing, In Truth, What A Hero Was. Now, Perhaps, I Understand It A Little Better. A Grower Of Turnips Or A Shaper Of Clay, A Commot Farmer Or A King--every Man Is A Hero If He Strives More For Others Than For Himself Alone. Once You Told Me That The Seeking Counts More Than The Finding. So, Too, Must The Striving Count More Than The Gain.

I Can't Single Out One Of My Books Or Characters As A Favorite. In The Same Way That I Don't Have A Favorite Kidney, My Books Are Organically All Part Of Myself. I Might Even Say That Put All Together, The Books Are One Ongoing, Developing Story - Which, Not Coincidentally, Happens To Be My Own Lifestory.

You Must Know Nothing Before You Can Learn Something, And Be Empty Before You Can Be Filled. Is Not The Emptiness Of The Bowl What Makes It Useful? As For Laws, A Parrot Can Repeat Them Word For Word. Their Spirit Is Something Else Again. As For Governing, One Must First Be Lowest Before Being Highest.

The Muse In Charge Of Fantasy Wears Good, Sensible Shoes. No Foam-born Aphrodite, She Vaguely Resembles My Old Piano Teacher, Who Was Keen On Metronomes.