Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings

The creative adult is the child who has survived.

People who deny the existence of dragons are often eaten by dragons. From within.

The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next.

Those who build walls are their own prisoners. I'm going to go fulfill my proper function in the social organism. I'm going to unbuild walls.

I doubt that the imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child, he would grow up to be an eggplant.

We read books to find out who we are. What other people, real or imaginary, do and think and feel... is an essential guide to our understanding of what we ourselves are and may become.

There have been great societies that did not use the wheel, but there have been no societies that did not tell stories.

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

It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.

You cannot buy the revolution. You cannot make the revolution. You can only be the revolution. It is in your spirit, or it is nowhere.

Desire is life trying to continue to be life. All living things desire, bacteria feel desire. Life is wanting.

No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise for the writer, no surprise for the reader.

The more I study, the more insatiable do I feel my genius for it to be.

Precision about language can be really, really annoying. It can make you miss the point of what the other person is saying altogether.

I cannot see myself as a wife. Ugly word.

What blame did Jesus have when He took the full blame for your sin?

I feel like I'm super hero diva and my power is glitter.

Still, life carries on. Exams to be examined. Serious things to be thingied.

I always wanted to play a big, black man, but that would cost too much make-up.

The human body is not an instrument to be used, but a realm of one's being to be experienced, explored, enriched and, thereby, educated.