It is useless work that darkens the 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.

I pictured her tragically

Only the blood of Jesus can cleanse us, yet if we withhold ourselves from that blood, we will be unclean forever.

After the verb 'to Love', 'to Help' is the most beautiful verb in the world.

317 is a prime, not because we think so, or because our minds are shaped in one way rather than another, but because it is so, because mathematical reality is built that way.

I've met people and have mentors that have taught me and I'm still trying to get better today.

Much historical fiction that centers on real people has always been deficient in information, lacking in craft and empty in affect.

When I’m reaching an audience, I feel it.

Dance, even if you have nowhere to do it but your living room.

Our treasure is what we fear losing, and I fear that we fear losing our treasure. We are lovers of money.

Cameroon is a football country - children are born playing football.