To be oneself is a rare thing, and a great one.

George, it's impossible to correct a defective reality-orientation overnight.

Hope is a slow business.

Fiction—and poetry and drama— cleanse the doors of perception.

Even in merely reading a fairytale, we must let go our daylight convictions and trust ourselves to be guided by dark figures, in silence; and when we come back, it may be very hard to describe where we have been.

My world, my Earth is a ruin. A planet spoiled by the human species. We multiplied and fought and gobbled until there was nothing left, and then we died. We controlled neither appetite nor violence; we did not adapt. We destroyed ourselves. But we destroyed the world first.

When action grows unprofitable, gather information; when information grows unprofitable, sleep.