Great artists make the roads; good teachers and good companions can point them out. But there ain't no free rides, baby.

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 things that challenge our trust in God also, challenge our confidence within ourselves.

I'm not a genius. I'm just passionately curious.

Jewels! Today each twig is important, each ring, each infection, each form is all that the gods must have meant.

The poet is an untier of knots, and love without words is a knot, and it drowns.

There's an actual physiological thing that happens to me on tour. There's that moment where I sit in my seat and click the seatbelt, and five seconds later I fall asleep.

Great deeds give choice of many tales. Choose a slight tale, enrich it large, and then let wise men listen

At Christmas time we couldn't afford tinsel, so we'd wait till grandpa sneezed.

The job of a football coach is to make men do what they don't want to do, in order to achieve what they've always wanted to be.

I've seen lights in the sky, I've seen UFOs, I've even seen something on the ground that I can't explain, but I've never actually seen a being. I wish I had.

Human beings, from a mathematical perspective, are fairly limited. Two and three dimensions, maybe five, and we're OK.