Science fiction is not prescriptive; it is descriptive.

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.

If you were a cloud, and sailed up there, You'd sail on the water as blue as air.And you'd see me here in the fields and say:"Doesn't the sky look green today?

He felt that every sorrow was less than that which separation must produce

We have talked long enough in this country about equal rights. It is time now to write the next chapter - and to write it in the books of law.

America is such a great country, we have fat poor people.

Meditation is that exercise of the mind by which it recalls a known truth, as some kind of creatures do their food, to be ruminated upon till all the valuable parts be extracted.

Some people meet people in the grocery store, but I get my tomatoes and I'm out.

I use the words you taught me. If they don't mean anything any more, teach me others. Or let me be silent.

Stereotyping and generating brands around musicians I think contributes to their eventual demise.

I clearly understood the concept of wise use before I ever heard the actual words, for my father wouldn't allow us to waste anything.

My fiction may, now and again, illuminate aspects of the human condition, but I do not consciously set out to do so: I am a storyteller.