Absolute freedom is absolute responsibility.

The creative adult is the child who has survived.

People who deny the existence of dragons are often eaten by dragons. From within.

The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next.

Those who build walls are their own prisoners. I'm going to go fulfill my proper function in the social organism. I'm going to unbuild walls.

I doubt that the imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child, he would grow up to be an eggplant.

We read books to find out who we are. What other people, real or imaginary, do and think and feel... is an essential guide to our understanding of what we ourselves are and may become.

There have been great societies that did not use the wheel, but there have been no societies that did not tell stories.

Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.

It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.

You cannot buy the revolution. You cannot make the revolution. You can only be the revolution. It is in your spirit, or it is nowhere.

Forever does not make loss forgettable, only bearable, Brother Zachariah to Clary Fray

The human comedy is always tragic, but since its ingredients are always the same - dupe, fox, straight, like burlesque skits - the repetition through the ages is comedy.

We must do what we think we can't do.

Sometimes we question things that we have done in our lives but how many times do we question what we haven't done in someone else's?

When Medusa looks in the mirror, she sees the Lady of Sorrows.

...trade the life of self pity, that I was living, for a life of purpose! - Rebekah -

Successful people rely heavily on their mentors. Ordinary people don't. It's that simple.

In any business, you have to evolve.

How delicious is the winning Of a kiss at Love's beginning, When two mutual hearts are sighing For the knot there's no untying!

Honestly, I haven't the time to read contemporary writers. I know this is awful, but in the main it is true.