"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."
"Gradually the healing took place, seeming as it always does that it wasn't taking place."
"It is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception and compassion and hope."
"My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world and exiles me from it."
"Children know perfectly well that unicorns aren’t real, but they also know that books about unicorns, if they are good books, are true books."
"To oppose something is to maintain it... You must go somewhere else; you must have another goal; then you walk a different road."