We like to think we live in daylight, but half the world is always dark, and fantasy, like poetry, speaks the language of the night.

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.

Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred.

I got married the second time in the way that, when a murder is committed, crackpots turn up at the police station to confess the crime.

But what are you going to do about the people who are cursed with both hearts and brains?

No animal ever invented anything as bad as drunkenness - or so good as drink.

I don't think the tabloids find me very interesting.

Virtue is not a thing you can have by halves; it is or it is not.

What I have learned about the sport of cycling is that you have to love it to do it because you're not going to retire off of it.

When I talk about doing affirmations, I mean consciously choosing words that will either help eliminate something from your life or help create something new in your life.

I still call myself a communist, because communism is no more what Russia made of it than Christianity is what the churches make of it.

Acknowledged differences may create mutual respect, but hazy misunderstandings bring forth nothing but prejudice and rejection.