I believe that maturity is not an outgrowing, but a growing up: that an adult is not a dead child, but a child who survived.

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.

Now faith is being sure of what we believe in and certain of what we do not see. (Heb. 11:1)

Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea.

Why do they hate us?" He paused. "We didn't do anything wrong.

Creativity is seeing what others see and thinking what no one else has ever thought.

Life's better without braces.

The presidency does not yield to definition. Like the glory of a morning sunrise, it can be experienced.

If I relegate impossible Salvation to the prop room, what remains? A whole man, composed of all men and as good as all of them and no better than any.

Light coursed through Karou and darkness chased it-burning through her, chilling her, shimmer and shadow, ice and fire, blood and starlight, rushing, roaring, filling her.

I am getting so far out one day I won't come back at all.

Bind together your spare hours by the cord of some definite purpose.