How Easy It Is To Think Well

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.

And So They Lived Many Happy Years, And The Promised Tasks Were Accomplished. Yet Long Afterward, When All Had Passed Away Into Distant Memory, There Were Many Who Wondered Whether King Taran, Queen Eilonwy, And Their Companions Had Indeed Walked The Earth, Or Whether They Had Been No More Than Dreams In A Tale Set Down To Beguile Children. And, In Time, Only The Bards Knew The Truth Of It.

If Writers Learn More From Their Books Than Do Readers, Perhaps I May Have Begun To Learn.

Story, Finally, Is Humanity's Autobiography.

Craftsmanship Isn't Like Water In An Earthen Pot, To Be Taken Out By The Dipperful Until It's Empty. No, The More Drawn Out The More Remains.