We need to ensure that children are not forced to waste their time on barren rubbish.

True education flowers at the point when delight falls in love with responsibility.

You cannot change what you are, only what you do.

That's the duty of the old, to be anxious on behalf of the young. And the duty of the young is to scorn the anxiety of the old.

After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.

One curious thing about growing up is that you don't only move forward in time; you move backwards as well, as pieces of your parents' and grandparents' lives come to you.

We don't need lists of rights and wrongs, tables of do's and don'ts: we need books, time, and silence. Thou shalt not is soon forgotten, but Once upon a time lasts forever.

I stopped believing there was a power of good and a power of evil that were outside us. And I came to believe that good and evil are names for what people do, not for what they are.

If you want something you can have it, but only if you want everything that goes with it, including all the hard work and the despair, and only if you're willing to risk failure.

Read like a butterfly, write like a bee.

Just finished 'Secrecy' - truly enthralling both as a love story and as a tale of suspense - but much more than both.

How can we love the unseen God and hate the visible man?

We're both whisper-screaming at each other. All I can think is this is the worst possible way to break up with somebody.

I have found in life that everything, no matter how bad, comes to an end.

Ecology is a dirty seven-letter word to many people. They are like heavy sleepers refusing to be aroused. "Leave me alone! It's not time to get up yet!"

We know now that government by organized money is just as dangerous as government by organized mob.

We think a person should do right because it's right, not because their soul will be in eternal jeopardy if they don't toe the line.

You can be only a modest distance away from the gravity brane, and gravity will be incredibly weak.

I write for somebody who has my own limitations. My reader has a certain difficulty with concentrating, which in my case comes from being a film viewer.

The wind of revolutions is not tractable.

A lot times you have your frame very much in mind and you're waiting for things to fall in place.