I believe that maturity is not an outgrowing, but a growing up: that an adult is not a dead child, but a child who survived. I believe that all the best faculties of a mature human being exist in the child. . . that one of the most deeply human, and humane, of these faculties is the power of imagination.

There's a great fear of the imagination. It's a dangerous thing. It's out of control, it's subversive.

Truth is a matter of the imagination.

We need writers who know the difference between the production of a commodity and the practice of an art.

But it doesn't take a thousand men to open a door, my lord." "It might to keep it open.

I do try to separate my personal activism - showing up at a demonstration or something - from what I write.

As a kitten does what all other kittens do, so a child wants to do what other children do, with a wanting that is as powerful as it is mindless. Since we human beings have to learn what we do, we have to start out that way, but human mindfulness begins where that wish to be the same leaves off.