Why is it that if you say you don’t enjoy using an e-reader, or that you aren’t going to get one till the technology is mature, you get reported as “loathing�

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.

The cost of electrons and photons is getting cheaper all the time!

When you use positive words it naturally has a very dynamic effect on the energy present around you.

Many people resented my impatience and honesty, but I never cared about acceptance as much as I cared about respect.

Portraying emotionally ill characters gives me the chance to really act.

Whenever there is stillness there is the still small voice, God's speaking from the whirlwind, nature's old song, and dance.

Never follow the crowd. Go where it's empty.

I do not trust those who make the vaccines, or the apparatus behind it all to push it on us thru fear.

Books, I knew then and now, give body to our ideas and imaginations, make them flesh in the world; a bookstore is the city where our fleshed-out inner selves reside.

There is no pleasure pure and simple, and some care always comes to mar our joys.

Doing real world projects is, I think, the best way to learn and also to engage the world and find out what the world is all about.