Elegance is a small price to pay for enlightenment, and I was glad to pay it.

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.

The amusements of life, he argued, should be accepted with the same philosophy as its ills. ("The Striding Place")

If ever asked to look at yourself, don't.

When we receive God's gift of life by relying on Christ, we find that God comes to act with us as we rely on him in our actions.

It's just what we love doing. I don't feel like we have some kind of obligation to... It's really just a natural thing.

I would like to thank ABC for giving me the Drew Carey award. It only goes to one lucky guy with glasses a year, and gosh darn it, tonight I'm the king of the... general area.

The way we started was, Alison [McGhee] said, 'Tall girl, short girl.' We had no plans beyond that.

I respect anyone who achieves something that countless others have dared to try before and failed.

Mona Lisa looks as if she has just been sick, or is about to be.

When authors and critics talk of the sublime, they see not how nearly it borders on the ridiculous.

The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.