Maybe when you meet the people you are supposed to meet you know it, without knowing it.

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.

You are the same today that you are going to be five years from now except for two things: the people with whom you associate and the books you read.

I have never believed in being part of any one group or camp.

I kept thinking there's bound to be something else? I could hear it sometimes, but I couldn't play it.

For a leader to pick his own successor is a feudal practice.

You have to believe that things can be bigger than what you see in front of you in order to move forward.

While poverty persists, there is no true freedom.

Your assumption, to be effective, cannot be a single isolated act, it must be a maintained attitude of the wish fulfilled.

Jury verdicts, basketball games, and even music are enough to set off black rage, it seems.

It doesn't matter if dragons are flying overhead or whatever - a lot of Victoriana is still cut in the frame of fantasy.

Politeness is deception in pretty packaging.