Genre fiction was looked at as a ghetto, but I wonder now if realist fiction, sealing itself off in the glum suburbs of a dysfunctional society, denying the use of imagination, was the ghetto.

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.

‎A day in which I don't write leaves a taste of ashes.

Success is 3Ms: Your vision produces the Map

You know, it's such an insult to actual martial artists that I say that I do martial arts.

Coming out of college with a degree in fine arts and painting isn't worth much any more.

I have been talking about that for a long time, but it's very, very important to me [to unify the country.]

Historically, much of the motivation for public schooling has been to stifle variety and institute social control.

My outlook on life is so much clearer.

By the age of 9 or 10, I knew that I had to cut my own cloth and make my own way.

No doctrine involving more pernicious consequences was ever invented by the wit of man than any [constitutional] provisions can be suspended during any of the great exigencies of government.

Whatsoever we perpetrate, we do but row; we are steered by fate.