If a book told you something when you were fifteen, it will tell you it again when you're fifty, though you may understand it so differently that it seems you're reading a whole new book.

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.

Plan B?' Ivy said. 'What is plan B?'Jenks reddened. 'Grab the fish and run like hell, ' he muttered, and I almost giggled.

To literary critics a book is assumed to be guilty until it proves itself innocent.

Do not despair, my friend. Today is theirs, but the future is ours

Rejection only made the attachment stronger. I realized that the impossibility of connection was a driving force behind his desire.

Boys are capital fellows in their own way, among their mates; but they are unwholesome companions for grown people.

He who, seeking his own happiness, punishes or kills beings who also long for happiness, will not find happiness after his death.

I hope you will simply do what you can do in the best way you know. If you do so, you will witness miracles come to pass.

Planning is really the hallmark of any large military formation, and it's typically a weakness in new formations and new armies.

Books are solitudes in which we meet.

The world has always been like a comic book world to me! What's happened is that communications got better and better, so now with cell-phones we can be in touch with people half a globe away.