“Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new.”

“I had forgotten how much light there is in the world, till you gave it back to me.”

“I don't write tracts, I write novels. I'm not a preacher, I'm a fiction writer.”

“The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. This...”

“Happiness is based on a just discrimination of what is necessary, what is neither necessary nor destructive, and what is destructive”

“They leave Omelas, they walk ahead into the darkness, and they do not come back. The place they go towards is a place even less imaginable to most of us than the city of happiness. I cannot...”