What goes too long unchanged destroys itself.

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.

Science, like art, is not a copy of nature but a re-creation of her.

The little woman, wearing a pink and black zigzag-striped pantsuit over a black turtleneck, resembled a skinny zebra who'd OD'd on Pepto-Bismol.

No effort makes a black crow into a white hawk.

The woman who can create her own job is the one who will win fame and fortune.

We often live next to monsters unawares.

Poetry is a diary kept by a sea creature who lives on land and wishes he could fly.

The great question, whether man is of nature or above her.

we do not die of anguish, we live on. We continue to suffer. We drink the cup drop by drop.

The Bible is the one Word of the one God about the one way of salvation through the one Savior, Jesus Christ.

If the sky were to suddenly open up, there would be no law, there would be no rule. There would be only you and your memories, the choices you've made and the people you've touched.