I'd rather get bad news from an honest man than lies from a flatterer.

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 was never more hated than when I tried to be honest. Or when, even as just now I've tried to articulate exactly what I felt to be the truth. No one was satisfied

As regards the extraordinary prizes, the element of luck is the determining factor.

Divorce is probably of nearly the same date as marriage. I believe, however, that marriage is some weeks the more ancient.

At my age, any day above ground and vertical is a good day.

Danger hides in beauty and beauty in danger.

I'm still working for the government.

I knew I wouldn't have another day off for a while, so I needed to get to London immediately.

The people who really got me off were dealing with the musical potential of their instrument.

God comes to us in the things we know best and cane verify most easily, the things of our everyday life.

I think the rapidly growing tendency to regard animals as born for nothing except slavery to so-called humanity absolutely disgusting.