What else is death but the refusal any longer to grow and suffer change?

I write not to record what I think but to discover what I think

All the things we achieve are things we have first of all imagined.

I might grow old in Brisbane, but I would never grow up.

Silence is a form of communication. Speech divides us.

We’re such contrary creatures

Words his soul danced to.

We are continuous with all the particles of our physical being, as in our breathing we are continuous with the sky. Between our bodies and the world there is unity and commerce.

With all those prizes the most interesting thing is getting on to the shortlist, because that tells you who people see as your peers.

Words are powerful. They too can be the agents of what is new, of what is conceivable and can be thought and let loose upon the world.

So these things happen, deep in our lives. We do not speak of them. We hide them even from ourselves, but they do not leave us.

Pick up a thing, " [Wizard Kadmeion's]mother would say. "Touch, smell, and taste it. Listen to its nonsense. Then put the funny thing in its proper place.

It occurred to Gavin that the first thought a groom had upon spying his bride shouldn’t be to wonder whether or not she wore knickers.

The legacy I want to leave is a child-care system that says no kid is going to be left alone or left unsafe.

Playing a show before thousands of people is a highly unnatural state, and when I get on the mat to do an hour of yoga before the show, I come out physically relaxed.

Hatred doesn't just hurt the people being hated, it hurts the people housing the hatred

I was sexually abused by my step father for years and years, and that caused scars you can't see. And we know many people have the kind of scars you can't see.

It's so simple really: If you say you're going to do something, do it. If you start something, finish it.

Thinking I'm a moron gives people something to feel smug about," Charles Wallace said. "Why should I disillusion them?

Tea is a work of art and needs a master hand to bring out its noblest qualities. We have good and bad teas, as we have good and bad paintings - generally the latter.