Realism is a very sophisticated form of literature, a very grown-up one. And that may be its weakness. But fantasy seems to be eternal and omnipresent and always attractive to kids.

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 are some things in life that shouldn't be given so much importance, if they don't change what is essential.

Somedays I ask myself why do I spend hours in the gym, then I look in the mirror and think "Damn I look good!

A stale mind is the devil's breadbox.

Even if you are planning a birth with an epidural, the evidence suggests that a doula can help make things go much more smoothly.

Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.

Well, "slithy" means "lithe and slimy." "Lithe" is the same as "active." You see it's like a portmanteau - there are two meanings packed up into one word.

You are alone with everything you love.

You don't wear pants that tight unless you got balls.

Because I'm an American, I know there's all sorts of international folks who would gladly kidnap and behead me.

I guess I'm pretty emotional.