Fear is the enemy of curiosity.

A beautiful question is an ambitious yet actionable question that can begin to shift the way we perceive or think about something - and that might serve as a catalyst to bring about change.

We have an education and business culture that tends to reward quick factual answers over imaginative inquiry. Questioning isn’t encouraged - it is barely tolerated.

If we’re born to inquire, then why must it be taught?

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.

I have gained this by philosophy … I do without being ordered what some are constrained to do by their fear of the law.

God’s discipline has nothing to do with rejection but more to do with refinement.

The only type of men Julia's mother had warned her about were wealthy industrialist who polluted the environment and took advantage of third-world countries. And Republilicans.

I never laugh or smile when I am writing. When I come home for lunch after writing all morning, my wife says I look like I just came home from a funeral. This is not bragging. This is an illness.

Chinese people themselves, they really want change.

Maybe sadness was a kind of hunger, she thought. Maybe the two went together.

Hip Hop has its ups and downs but I'm gonna do my best to not necessarily bring that back but just remind people what they are forgetting about.

If certain Critics were as clearsighted as they are malignant, how great would be the benefit to be derived from their writings!

One man with a gun can control 100 without one.