Authors are ordinary people who usually start to live apart, in the imagination, because they dont fit in with normal, healthy people.

Music comes from an icicle as it melts, to live again as spring water.

Yet otters have not been hunters in water long enough for the habit to become an instinct.

Every gesture is a gesture from the blood, every expression a symbolic utterance... Everything is of the blood, of the senses.

Regeneration can come only through a change of heart in the individual.

If salt ocean is the Great Mother from whom all life has sprung, fresh water is the Nurse entrusted to nourish life within her wanderings and around her wave-lapped margins.

Education must be aimed at creating a wider imagination in the child, not at suppressing. The childs mind must be set free.

All the experience of the greatest city in the world could not withhold me.

Even a poor translator couldn't kill a style that moves with such narrative clarity.

As it turned out, my greatest fear in life had become expectations.

It is imperative to change the way we look at education. We should invest in the foundation of school readiness from birth to age 5.

In the perfect state the good man is absolutely the same as the good citizen; whereas in other states the good citizen is only good relatively to his own form of government.

I would say the world's in terrible shape, but I'm afraid the world would say, "Look who's talking".

I've been in love before, every love-relationship is tough and it has its challenges.

It's been too many years since I've played live as myself as opposed to in a fake band for a film.

When I'm working, I don't wake up and say, 'OK, time to go be intense.' I just look at whatever scenes we're working on that day and break them down - just real intense everyday work.

If you've worked over all of your drawing, it should finish itself - often when you least expect it.

Hallucinogenic plants act as enzymes which stimulate imagination.