I don't write tracts, I write novels. I'm not a preacher, I'm a fiction writer.

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 funny thing about decisions based on signs or gut or visions is that they're usually nothing but noble outs. Just another way to sabotage yourself and keep your bigger life at bay.

I am involved in the architecture of space.

Its as boring to see a completely evil villain as it is to see a completely good guy.

We can be almost certain of being wrong about the future, if we are wrong about the past.

My chest of books divide amongst my friends.

I thought Johnny Depp was so cute when I was younger.

Everybody's got a habit.

Nap time would become a national pastime. A man needs his beauty rest!

It's my turn, to take a leap into the darkness!

I am undeniably afraid of the dark!