We're each of us alone, to be sure. What can you do but hold your hand out in the dark?

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.

I was murdered. Even though my heart continued to beat, I was very much deceased. All faded to black

I can see your dirtypillows.

They did nothing wrong their time here has ended

The goal of the work is always for it to come across as original material, as transformative material.

Our greatest illusion is to believe that we are what we think ourselves to be.

What an admirable training is science for the more active warfare of life! Indeed, the unchallenged bravery which these studies imply, is far more impressive than the trumpeted valor of the warrior.

Peace in your mind, peace on earth, peace at work, peace at home, peace in the world.

You can make one (self-contained self-rescuer) that would last all day, but you'd have to carry it behind in a wagon.

The desire to reach hearts is wise

Libraries are places that house our dreams, our fantasies, our thirst for adventure.