Sleeping people are so remote.... Right here, but out of communication. That's what strikes humans as uncanny about sleep. Its utter privacy. The sleeper turns his back on everyone.

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.

Time can be a greedy thing-sometimes it steals the details for itself.

You must suffer me to go my own dark way.

What will not woman gentle woman dare When strong affection stirs her spirit up?

Perception is the illusion that gives all matter mass, " The Flight of the Eagle A.K. Luthienne

Mediation gives you knowledge about God. Obedience gives you knowledge of God.

The glory of each generation is to make its own precedents.

One murder makes a villain; millions, a hero.

All three of the Abrahamic religions were born and nurtured in arid, disturbed environments.

There is no excuse for not catching a ball you can get to.

The best things and best people rise out of their separateness; I'm against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise.