Nothing said in words ever came out quite even. Things in words got twisted and ran together, instead of staying straight and fitting together.

If a book told you something when you were fifteen, it will tell you it again when you're fifty, though you may understand it so differently that it seems you're reading a whole new book.

There are no right answers to wrong questions.

Artists are people who are not at all interested in the facts - only in the truth.

Do you see, Arren, how an act is not, as young men think, like a rock that one picks up and throws, and it hits or misses, and that's the end of it. When that rock is lifted, the earth is lighter; the hand that bears it is heavier. When it is thrown, the circuits of the stars respond, and where it strikes or falls the universe is changed.

To learn a belief without the belief is to sing a song without the tune.

There's a point, around the age of twenty, when you have to choose whether to be like everybody else the rest of your life, or to make a virtue of your peculiarities.