O foolish writer. Now moves. Even in storytime, dreamtime, once-upon-a-time, now isn't then.

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.

There is a desert on the moon where the dreamer sinks so deeply into the ground that she reaches hell.

When God ignores you, the devil starts looking good.

If you are lonely when you are alone, you are in poor company.

There are few joys to compare with the telling of a well-told tale.

It's a treat to be kissed, even goodbye.

This unrequited love, to me it's nothing but a one-man cult/And cyanide in my styrofoam cup

I wish i spent more time at the office.

I tend to thrive on being misquoted. It's the only way I sound good.

Pain isn't always the enemy.

Have you not heard it said full oft, A woman's nay doth stand for naught?