Good is not a thing you are. It is a thing you do.

Conscience. Conscience is the ultimate measure of a man.

you can't really separate modernity from history or spiritual concerns from mundane ones. Everything feeds into everything else.

The censors don't bother with fantasy books, especially old ones. They can't understand them. They think it's all kids' stuff. They'd die if they knew what The Chronicles of Narnia were really about.

Once you discover that the world rewards reckless faith, no lesser world is worth contemplating.

Love the life you have been given. And be humbled by it. It is not to be despised.

Dear child, some stories have no morals. Sometimes darkness and madness are simply that.

Controversy is what mediocre people start because they can't communicate anything meaningful.

Many of us prefer to live in places abandoned by humans. Less work for us. Detroit is very popular.

So the stories aren't just stories, is what you're saying. They're really secret knowledge disguised as stories.""One could say that of all stories, younger brother.

Metaphors: knowledge existing in several states and without contradiction

Money and success don't change people they merely amplify what is already there.

There are two things in New York, euphoria and disaster.

Poetry too is a little incarnation, giving body to what had been before invisible and inaudible.

Write something every single day, even if it's just three lines. And it doesn't matter if it's any good - just write something every day.

Certainty always produces questions, uncertainty statements. It is a balancing law of nature.

Doubt is really a groping ignorance.

Ideas are inherently conservative. They yield not to the attack of other ideas but to the massive onslaught of circumstance with which they cannot contend.

What is the past, after all, but a vast sheet of darkness in which a few moments, pricked apparently at random, shine?

Our economies are built on the backs of all this unpaid labor that women do.

One has to set high standards... I can never be happy with mediocre performance.