Research the imagination. It was as obsolete as the appendix in most adults, except for those in whom, like the appendix, it became inflamed for no reason.

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.

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.

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.

I have always known that the best of the Saracens could out-Christian many of us Christians.

Men are like wine-some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age.

Life is a big story. Music is just one way to tell it, to realize how many tales all kinds of people share.

There's no getting rid of you. You are already in my bloodstream and woven into the marrow of my bones.

Even God cannot change the past.

All romantics meet the same fate some day. Drunk and cynical and boring someone in some dark cafe.

I would get in fights a lot. My voice was so heavy, kids would say you sound like a boy, so I would start beating them up.

I mean I've always been a big dude.

no one more sincerely wishes the spread of information among mankind than I do, and none has greater confidence in it's effect towards supporting free & good government.

There is but one way of refusing To-morrow, that is to die.