You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view – until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.
The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.
I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.
Books are a uniquely portable magic.
Give a man a fire and he’s warm for a day, but set fire to him and he’s warm for the rest of his life.
I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that I don’t know the answer.
Never forget what you are, for surely the world will not. Make it your strength. Then it can never be your weakness. Armour yourself in it, and it will never be used to hurt you.
I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will.
So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
Never love anyone who treats you like you’re ordinary.
Doubt thou the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love.
The heart was made to be broken.
We all die. The goal isn’t to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.
So, please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install, a lovely bookcase on the wall.
Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It’s a way of understanding it.
The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.
I love you more than there are stars in the sky and fish in the sea.
The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.