Even a poet cannot get everything right.

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.

As a subconscious attempt to add meaning or purpose to their life: The unemployed pray for a job

Always remember to love.

Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't.

If one wants to lead a good life, A HUMAN LIFE, one must work.

The natural force within each of us is that greatest healer of all.

Beware of all politicians everywhere. They excelled at recess when they were in school but have excelled at little since.

I told my agents that I love Holly Hunter and Frances McDormand and all of these women who are good at doing comedies, as well as dramas.

Well, whether it's on film or on TV, you don't want to throw too many curves at your audio and video guys.

Science is not a body of knowledge nor a system of belief; it is just a term which describes humankind’s incremental acquisition of understanding through observation. Science is awesome.

I don't think music is done by any means. I would love to do it again but it's finding the right thing.