I think the names of colors are at the edge, between where language fails and where it's at its most powerful.

I acquired a hunger for fairy tales in the dark days of blackout and blitz in the Second World War.

What literature can and should do is change the people who teach the people who don't read the books.

No mere human can stand in a fire and not be consumed.

Art does not exist for politics, or for instruction- it exists primarily for pleasure, or it is nothing.

Things are not what they seem.

I worry about anthropomorphism as a form of self-deception. (The Christian religion is an anthropomorphic account of the universe.)

Narration is as much a part of human nature as breath and the circulation of the blood.

I think vestigially there's a synesthete in me but not like a real one who immediately knows what colour Wednesday is.

He felt changed, but there was no one to tell.

Human beings love stories because they safely show us beginnings, middles and ends.

It is not for you to determine your purpose, the reason for your existence. You discover your purpose by asking the Creator why he created you!

Death is the transcendence of life to a new level to begin an endless eternal life.

I'm the flavor of the month.

The French flag is the only one to have a staff a thousand feet tall.

The minotaur more than justifies the existence of the labyrinth.

If you have a dream you gotta go on a journey to fulfill that dream.

The counterpart of the suicide is the seeker; but the difference between them is slight.

We agreed that we cannot let personal political attacks get in the way of doing the very best we can for California's children.

Day is a snow-white Dove of heaven That from the East glad message brings. Night is a stealthy, evil Raven, Wrapped to the eyes in his black wings.

Zionism is, in sum, the constant and unrelenting effort to realize the national and universal vision of the prophets of Israel.