“When we accept small wonders, we qualify ourselves to imagine great wonders.”

“Our lives are not as limited as we think they are; the world is a wonderfully weird place; consensual reality is significantly flawed; no institution can be trusted, but love does work; all things are possible; and we all could be happy and fulfilled if we only had the guts to be truly free and the wisdom to shrink our egos and quit taking ourselves so damn seriously.”

“Perhaps the most terrible (or wonderful) thing that can happen to an imaginative youth, aside from the curse (or blessing) of imagination itself, is to be exposed without preparation to the life outside his or her own sphere - the sudden revelation that there is a there out there.”

“We are our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from ourselves.”

“We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from ourselves.”

“I do not know why the dead do not come back to life. Perhaps death is so wonderful, in ways we cannot comprehend, that they prefer it over and above their friends and loved ones, although I am inclined to doubt that be the case.”

“Those people who recognise that imagination is reality's master, we call sages, and those who act upon it, we call artists.”