You cannot buy the revolution. You cannot make the revolution. You can only be the revolution. It is in your spirit, or it is nowhere.

What else can the young be? When you are on the bottom, you must organize from the bottom up

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

You cannot buy the revolution. You cannot make the revolution. You can only be the revolution. It is in your spirit, or it is nowhere.

Those who dislike fantasy are very often equally bored or repelled by science. They don't like either hobbits, or quasars; they don't feel at home with them; they don't want complexities, remoteness. If there is any such connection, I'll bet that it is basically an aesthetic one

Oh, never and forever aren't for mortals, love. But we won't be parted till I know it's right that we part.

It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.