There is no substitute for books in the life of a child.
every choice has its obverse, that is to say a renunciation, and so there is no difference between the act of choosing and the act of renouncing
The city of cats and the city of men exist one inside the other, but they are not the same city.
Fantasy is like jam. . . . You have to spread it on a solid piece of bread. If not, it remains a shapeless thing. . . out of which you can’t make anything.
Myth is the hidden part of every story, the buried part, the region that is still unexplored because there are as yet no words to enable us to get there. Myth is nourished by silence as well as by words.
It is within you that the ghosts acquire voices.
Melancholy is sadness that has taken on lightness.
A good leader can't get too far ahead of his followers.
When I went to college, my parents threw a going away party for me, according to the letter.
Selfless giving involves time. It takes a bit of time to care and share yourself with the universe.
She was so fat that her bikini is made out of two bed sheets (king-size).