Skill in writing frees you to write what you want to write. It may also show you what you want to write. Craft enables art.

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.

No woman can call herself free until she can choose consciously whether she will or will not be a mother.

fanaticism is the only way to put an end to the doubts that constantly trouble the human soul.

The more people who are dependent on government handouts, the more votes the left can depend on for an ever-expanding welfare state.

Any society that takes away from those most capable and gives to the least will perish.

You learn an enormous lot through failure.

The combative instinct is a savage prompting by which one man's good is found in another's evil.

Mountains and deserts, with their sparse life at the limit of existence, make one restless and disconsolate; one becomes an explorer in an intellectual realm as well as in a physical one.

When a torrent sweeps a man against a boulder, you must expect him to scream, and you need not be surprised if the scream is sometimes a theory.

I don't know what 'home' or 'abroad' is any more.

Those who have little shall have less, and that those who have much shall take all that others have left.