A functional media is as important to democratic freedom as voting.

The silencing of the rainforests is a double deforestation, not only of trees but a deforestation of the mind's music, medicine and knowledge.

Language is wild - you can't fence it or tell it what to do - and it's the same with people. Even under the worst excesses of Stalinism or consumerism, the human spirit will still express itself.

Children say they are unhappy in every language they have. They say it in silence, and they say it in riots.

We are animal in our blood and in our skin. We were not born for pavements and escalators but for thunder and mud.

Human language is lit with animal life: we play cats-cradle or have hare-brained ideas; we speak of badgering, or outfoxing someone; to squirrel something away and to ferret it out.

Just because Galileo was a heretic doesn't make every heretic a Galileo.

Singing with others is an unmediated, shared experience as each person feels the same music reverberating in their individual bodies. Singing is part of our humanity; it is embodied empathy.

Clock measurement is not time itself. In fact, so opposed are they that one could argue the clock is not a synonym, but the opposite of time.

A wild creature is not subject to any will except its own

As a writer you have a duty to be a messenger.

I can manage, " said Frodo. "I must.

A person who thinks he is right, causes great hurt to others and that is why hurt will come to him. A person who believes ‘I am right’, causes a lot of pain to others.

You broke my heart.I fell for you and you broke my heart.Period, done, end of story.

Funny how things have turned out, huh, Jorja. Your mother is the 'demon' and your lover is the nurturer, " Jorja commented into the air.

Now, to consult the rules of composition before making a picture is a little like consulting the law of gravity before going for a walk.

In terms of quantity, we've probably already reached the limit of what's feasible. I think a change of direction may be what's needed.

And isn't it a bad thing to be deceived about the truth, and a good thing to know what the truth is? For I assume that by knowing the truth you mean knowing things as they really are.

No one has ever succeeded in keeping nations at war except by lies.

Well, my work is done here. Thanks, boys!

Possessing by letting go of things was a secret of ownership unknown to youth.