Wherever they may have come from, and wherever they may have gone, unicorns live inside the true believer's heart. Which means as long as we can dream, there will be unicorns.

Withholding information is the essence of tyranny. Control of the flow of information is the tool of the dictatorship.

If you don’t jump, the wings never come.

I am ignoring you. In fact, I think you are a figment of my imagination.

The real heroes are the librarians and teachers who at no small risk to themselves refuse to lie down and play dead for censors.

Hey, Geekoid!" yelled Duncan Dougal, "Why do you read so much? Don't you know how to watch TV?

The first draft of a story is the writer's clay.

Sometimes when you mend a chain, the place where you fix it is strongest of all... Never was a chain that couldn't be broken. Sometimes its even a good idea.

Gadfangled girl things, always robbed me of my common sense.

How in the world do you tellyour wife that her mother was born a unicon?

Still, the painful death of that unicorn had been satisfying to watch

Indeed, she often wondered if she were dead, or dying from the inside out, and that was the root of her calm, the reason she could surrender her character.

The ego is a mean mechanism which mobilizes the absolute strongest rationalization traps in order to preserve itself.

Be kind and considerate with your criticism... It's just as hard to write a bad book as it is to write a good book.

The distance you walk on water depends on how great your faith is.

I saw the light blinking in my living room and changed it over and over, at the end I realized it was my eye blinking.

Be stupid, be dumb, be funny, if that's who you are. Don't try to be someone that society wants you to be, that's stupid. So be yourself.

But if you parry individuals points - a negative and defensive enterprise - you never step back and actively imagine a world in which a different system of ideas could be true - a positive act.

The humble man makes room for progress; the proud man believes he is already there.

In his youth Michael Owen was literally a greyhound.

I'm not a particularly good cook. Part of it is that it is the kind of cooking anybody could do if they bothered. It's improvisational. I cook with whatever I have laying around.