"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."
"Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new."
"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."
"The creative adult is the child who has survived."
"My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world and exiles me from it."
"To oppose something is to maintain it... You must go somewhere else; you must have another goal; then you walk a different road."