So rest a while, we can talk in the cool of the evening. Or the cool of the morning. There 's seldom as much hurry as I used to think there was." -HawkWho had been ArchmageThe Other Wind

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.

You do know you could find yourself charged with being a dominant species while under the influence of impulse-driven consumerism, don't you?

Best-sellerism is the star system of the book world. A "best seller" is a celebrity among books. It is a book known primarily (sometimes exclusively) for its well-knownness.

God gave me a very good hand to play over my 88 years. I have no regrets.

Any form of measuring yourself by the unkind action of another towards you is like looking into a badly fractured mirror... and then blaming yourself for the shattered image you see therein.

I believe that I need to explore my opportunities to the maximum, in order to excel and continue to play the best football I can.

One of the secrets of life is to make stepping stones out of stumbling blocks.

Teaching music to children is the most important thing in life, next to parenting, that a person can do.

Micing it from two different angles in front of the speaker sounds huge, and it's so simple.

Except the Christ be born again tonight In dreams of all men, saints and sons of shame, The world will never see his kingdom bright.

All the poet can do today is warn. That is why true Poets must be truthful.