Children know perfectly well that unicorns aren’t real, but they also know that books about unicorns, if they are good books, are true books.

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.

Jesus Christ. This is what sin feels like, " he rasped. "Wrong and right, at the same time. Life and death. Blond, long-legged, and tight.

Democracy is, among other things, the ability to say 'no' to the boss. But a man cannot say 'no' to the boss, unless he is sure of being able to eat when the boss's favour has been withdrawn.

Why should we break up Our snug and pleasant party? Time was made for slaves But never for us so hearty.

All who joy would win must share it. Happiness was born a Twin.

No matter what the name, we're all the same pieces in one big chess game.

Although there was a screenplay, the actors never knew what questions I was going to ask them, and all of my character's voice-over narration and scenes were added after the fact.

If we were to impose greater sanctions on economic sectors, I think we could have a significant impact on Putin.

A conservative is someone who believes in reform. But not now.

If I was a Greek citizen I'd be out there trying to bring down this monstrosity that has been put upon those people.

I focus a lot on my voice because I want it to be an instrument as well. I want my voice to add color.