Life goes on, even if two-headed and glowing faintly in the dark.

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.

Humans have reason to hate us dragons. If one dragon turns against humankind, he is a great and terrible foe.

The end justifies the means. Sometimes you have to do the wrong thing to get the right result.

The only question to ask yourself is, how much are you willing to sacrifice to achieve this success?

I always wanted to play against the best.

A committee of three gets things done if two dont show up.

Animals feed themselves; men eat; but only wise men know the art of eating

In the hands of a master, light and shade is one of the great qualities of art.

Empire may be gained by gold, not gold by empire. It used, indeed, to be a proverb that "It is not Philip, but Philip's gold that takes the cities of Greece.

To me, each individual is far more valuable than society as a whole.

You are not going to find yourself anywhere except right where you are.