Everything is surprising, rightly seen.

I acquired a hunger for fairy tales in the dark days of blackout and blitz in the Second World War.

What literature can and should do is change the people who teach the people who don't read the books.

No mere human can stand in a fire and not be consumed.

Art does not exist for politics, or for instruction- it exists primarily for pleasure, or it is nothing.

Things are not what they seem.

I think the names of colors are at the edge, between where language fails and where it's at its most powerful.

I worry about anthropomorphism as a form of self-deception. (The Christian religion is an anthropomorphic account of the universe.)

Narration is as much a part of human nature as breath and the circulation of the blood.

I think vestigially there's a synesthete in me but not like a real one who immediately knows what colour Wednesday is.

He felt changed, but there was no one to tell.

Your name may be 'writ in water', but for now, you have the great advantage of being a wave that can think.

All work is the avoidance of harder work.

The past is weird. I mean, does it really exist ? It feels like it exists, but where is it ? And if it did exists, but doesn’t now, then where did it go ?

A friend is someone who will bike to the ice cream shop with you, even when you don't look so good.

The world would have peace if only men of politics would follow the Gospels.

Every inch of progress is won in struggle.

The Republicans are the party of bad ideas. The Democrats are the party of no ideas.

They are achieving nothing, they are suffering from casualties. Those casualties are increasing, not decreasing

Plutus himself, That knows the tinct and multiplying med'cine, Hath not in nature's mystery more science Than I have in this ring.

Syria doesn't want to talk with us on a bilateral basis, only under the auspices of the United States.