You can go home again...so long as you understand that home is a place where you have never been.

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.

You really only understand whether a song's good or not when you properly play it out in public for the first time.

On Hallowe'en the old ghosts come about us, and they speak to some; to others they are dumb.

Philosophers of biology generally recognize that evolutionary fitness (roughly, an organism's ability to survive and reproduce in its environment) is multiply realizable.

Few have greater riches than the joy That comes to us in visions, In dreams which nobody can take away.

I've fallen prey to my fair share of moments of the phobias of others and the way that that can become an attack.

Magic is antiphysics, so it can't really exist. But is shares one thing with science. I can explain the principle behind a good science experiment in 15 seconds; the same way with magic.

I've had good moments scattered since then, times when I thought I was better, but that was the last day I felt triumphant.

Music induces nightingales to sing, pug dogs to yelp.

I don't quite comprehend why you'd force someone to bow when the purpose of the gesture is to display allegiance and respect.