Genre is a useful concept only when used not evaluatively but descriptively.

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.

I'd rather be a rising ape than a falling angel.

We must thank to all the failed people in the history as they showed us the true way to success!

When truth and honesty is successfully intertwined into the business world of a nation, the result is a boost in commerce.

Disaster was an avalanche, gathering speed with such acceleration that you worried more about getting out of its path, not finding the pebble at its center.

Loving people are magnetic. To attract your SoulMate, BE the loving person you want to be, and do it NOW.

The future can be anything we want it to be, providing we have the faith and that we realize that peace, no less than war, required blood and sweat and tears.

A thousand trills and quivering sounds In airy circles o'er us fly, Till, wafted by a gentle breeze, They faint and languish by degrees, And at a distance die.

History needs distance, perspective. Facts and events which are too well attested cease, in some sort, to be malleable.

Anything can make me stop and look and wonder, and sometimes learn.

Open up a few corpses: you will dissipate at once the darkness that observation alone could not dissipate.