Almost everything carried to its logical extreme becomes either depressing or carcinogenic.

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.

Love. The reason I dislike that word is that it means too much for me, far more than you can understand."- Anna Karenina {Anna Karenina}

When blondes have more fun, do they know it?

I do as I please, Monsieur Beauchamp, and believe me, what I do is always well done.

To worship God is to admit that we are entirely contrary to Him, and that He is willing to make us like Himself.

I'm just showing my personality in my clothing.

You think you are somebody and that is where the problem begins. You're really not somebody, you're everybody. You objectify yourself into thinking that you are a particular state of being.

The morning is the best time, there are no people around. My pleasant disposition likes the world with nobody in it.

I never plan my novels because if I know what is going to happen, it bores me rigid. I let the story tell itself.

Marriage simplifies life and complicates the day.