If books were Persian carpets, one would not look only at the outer side. because it is the stitch that makes a carpet wear, gives it its life and bloom.

When you learn to read you will be born again...and you will never be quite so alone again.

To me and my kind life itself is a story and we have to tell it in stories - that is the way it falls.

Drink very good tea out of a thin Wocester cup of colour between apricot and pink.

Wanting is the beginning of getting.

It is an anxious, sometimes a dangerous thing to be a doll. Dolls cannot choose; they can only be chosen; they cannot 'do'; they can only be done by.

I don't know if I believe in God, but I know I believe in the devil. I have met him.

You can be a nuisance to your family. You mustn't be a nuisance to your friends.

A garden isn't meant to be useful. It's for joy.

Memory is the only friend of grief.

Most grown people are like icebergs, three-tenths showing, seven-tenths submerged - that is why a collision with one of them is unexpectedly hurtful.

We cannot prepare our fate, but we can stir it up.

Scholarship that is indifferent to human suffering is immoral.

And what's care?What's coldness?Why you are so foolish of your freedom?...Merely an illusion... programmed.....

Perfection is the lowest standard of achievement. Doing is the highest.

You become that to which you are most exposed.

At Court, every one for himselfe. [At court, everyone for himself.]

Life can have significance even if it appears to be a series of failures.

Our task is not to liberate the oppressed, but to liberate the oppressors

The only science fiction I have written is Fahrenheit 451. It's the art of the possible. Science fiction is the art of the possible. It could happen. It has happened.

I want people to know that movie stars live a normal, middle-class life.