I am no more lonely than the loon on the pond that laughs so loud.

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.

You gotta admit, it's a messed-up world when going to war is safer than staying home.

It was hard to bear your soul while someone was talking to their friend about a new sweater they bought.

When after many battles past Both tir'd with blows make peace at last What is it after all the people get? Why! taxes widows wooden legs and debt.

I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.

Hope is the forward-looking part of memory.

Distance sometimes endears friendship, and absence sweeteneth it.

I'm just enjoying the ride. I'm just contributing what I can.

If our children have the background of a godly, happy home and this unshakable faith that the Bible is indeed the Word of God, they will have a foundation that the forces of hell cannot shake.

Life is very short, and it ought not to be spent crawling at the feet of miserable scoundrels.

I suppose fear is like a drug. A little bit isn't that bad, but you can get addicted to the consumption and distribution of it.