I write with all my heart

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.

Where the signposts end, the trail begins.

There are things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself, and every decent man has a number of such things stored away in his mind.

Between killing and dying there's a third way: live

Imports remain a concern with the currency holding at $US0.75 cents and cost pressures persist, in particular for power and transport.

I've learned over the years that identity has a whole lot less to do with location or other people's expectations than with your own sense of self and self-confidence.

I don't think I've ever met Putin. I mean if he's in the same room or something. But I don't think so.

My mobile phone battery runs out all the time because all the messages come straight to me.

To condemn spontaneous and delightful occupations because they are useless for self-preservation shows an uncritical prizing of life irrespective of its content.

Debating against him is no fun, say something insulting and he looks at you like a whipped dog.

Your arm is unvanquished, but not invincible.