Go to bed; tired is stupid.

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.

I am an average good Christian, when you don't push my Christianity too far. And all the rest of you—which is a great comfort—are, in this respect, much the same as I am.

The world shall retire from me before I shall retire from the world. John Quincy Adams

It is literature which for me opened the mysterious and decisive doors of imagination and understanding. To see the way others see. To think the way others think. And above all, to feel.

I'm a light comedienne, that's really where I live the most often.

Hee that keepes his owne makes warre.

Most human beings today waste some 25 to 30 years of their lives before they break through the actual and conventional lies which surround them.

I don't think anyone connected with Five-O believed the show would last as long as it did.

We are creating a fabulous franchise with an incredible female action hero.

When people say 'I'm not a prude, but ...' what they mean is 'I am a prude, and ...'.

Contrary to our culture, the Biblical doctrine of Grace humbles us without degrading us, and elevates us without inflating us.