Michael Ende

“You must do what you want to do.”

“But that's another story and shall be told another time.”

“Imagination has to be watered with something very special, or it would simply die.”

“The Nothing is spreading... it's growing and growing, there's more of it every day, if it's possible to speak of more nothing.”

“If you have never wept bitter tears, you cannot appreciate the joy of smiling.”

“Time is life itself, and life resides in the human heart.”

“When it comes to the crunch, coming out the other side is all that counts.”

“Every real story is a never ending story.”

“He who has never fought with dragons is deprived of a great experience.”

“There were thousands and thousands of forms of joy in the world, but that all were essentially one and the same, namely, the joy of being able to love.”

“There are in this world all sorts of strange poisons. The most dangerous of all is the will to power.”

“A story can be new and yet tell of olden times. The important thing is that the story should be one that 'has' to be told.”

“It is a well-known fact that the world of ordinary people and the world of fairy tales are separated by a border that is very difficult to cross.”

“And that is the secret of this kind of telling: that the story tells the storyteller.”