We have fallen into this very mean description of humanity. Naturalism in fiction is too reductive in its definition of human beings.

The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.

The magician and the politician have much in common: they both have to draw our attention away from what they are really doing.

We have not yet arrived, but every point at which we stop requires a re-definition of our destination.

When you can imagine you begin to create and when you begin to create you realize that you can create a world that you prefer to live in, rather than a world that you're suffering in.

Beware of the stories you read or tell; subtly, at night, beneath the waters of consciousness, they are altering your world.

There ought to be three traditions in the art of humanity: the realistic, the visionary and the wild.

Stories are the secret reservoir of values: change the stories individuals and nations live by and tell themselves, and you change the individuals and nations.

The law is simple. Every experience is repeated or suffered till you experience it properly and fully the first time.

What you see is what you make. What you see in a people is what you eventually create in them.

The fact of storytelling hints at a fundamental human unease, hints at human imperfection. Where there is perfection there is no story to tell.

The smartest fish are still in the sea.

She was crazy. I could be too. It was my greatest fear, that I'd snap one day too. Just like she had. I wanted to live life because if that day came I wanted to have lived once.

He was sixty years old

Without the communist oppression, I am absolutely sure I would now be a local stupid professor of philosophy in Ljubljana.

History a distillation of rumor

Many people cycle or swim to keep trim. But if swimming is so good for the figure, how do you explain whales?

Keep your business affairs in your own hands. It's the only way to be happy.

We like rain if the sun comes after it; we like night if the day comes after it; we like everything conditionally! We are conditional people!

...Khufu who is believed to have been the pharaoh who commissioned the building of the great pyramid at Giza.

Friendship is a mysterious and ocean-bottom thing. Who can know the outer ranges of it? Perhaps no human being has ever explored its limits.