It’s an odd thing, happiness. Some people take happiness from gold. Or black pearls. And some of us, far more fortunate, take their happiness from periwinkles.

Imagination is the golden-eyed monster that never sleeps. It must be fed; it cannot be ignored.

Those who fear the imagination condemn it: something childish, they say, something monsterish, misbegotten. Not all of us dream awake. But those of us who do have no choice.

There was the gaudy patch of sunflowers beside the west gate of the palace of the Prince of Ombria, that did nothing all day long but turn their golden-haired, thousand-eyed faces to follow the sun.

She is our moon. Our tidal pull. She is the rich deep beneath the sea, the buried treasure, the expression in the owl's eye, the perfume in the wild rose. She is what the water says when it moves.

The odd thing about people who had many books was how they always wanted more.

Night is not something to endure until dawn. It is an element, like wind or fire. Darkness is its own kingdom; it moves to its own laws, and many living things dwell in it.

Words, he decided, were inadequate at best, impossible at worst. They meant too many things. Or they meant nothing at all.

Love and anger are like land and sea: They meet at many different places.

That's the beginning of magic. Let your imagination run and follow it.

When you put your hands and mind and heart into the knowing of a thing ... there is no room in you for fear.

I lied to hurt you. For letting him be dead while you lived. For being loved by him more than he loved me!He loved you more than he ever loved any of the rest of us!

Nothing you write, if you hope to be good, will ever come out as you first hoped.

You and I are but specks of that rhythmic urge which is Brahma, which is Allah, which is God.

Life is like riding a bicycle. If you want to stay balanced you've got to keep moving forward.

Talking of white supremacist violent types, I was in America, recently.

I'm easily distracted by other things in the world around me.

I don't like to have the federal government start pushing its weight deeper and deeper into our schools. Let the states and localities do that.

The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.

You have escaped the cage. Your wings are stretched out. Now fly.

It's a natural tendency of mine to not even listen to lyrics.