And though I came to forget or regret all I have ever done, yet would I remember that once I saw the dragons aloft on the wind at sunset above the western isles; and I would be content.

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.

When a man truly loves a woman he will always try to make her life easier.

Your problems aren't too big -- perhaps your worship is too small.

Nonsense and beauty have close connections.

I live a very quiet life, although I'm very urban and a diehard New Yorker

Know how to replace in your heart, by the happiness of those you love, the happiness that may be wanting to yourself

The researcher is more memorable than the researched.

If national pride is ever justifiable or excusable it is when it springs, not from power or riches, grandeur or glory, but from conviction of national innocence, information and benevolence.

I was shooting at myself - I was shooting my own violence and the violence of the times

It's not a problem that we're sinners; it's a problem that we aren't ashamed of our sin and don't seek forgiveness.

If at first you don't succeed-try, try again. Don't think of it as failure. Think of it as timed-release success.