How can people be anything but ignorant when knowledge isn't saved, isn't taught?

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.

Truth and facts are woven together. However, sometimes facts can blind you from seeing what is actually going on in someone’s life.

After all, memory may be the only thing on earth we can truly manipulate to serve us, so we don't have to look back at ourselves in the receding past and think, What an arsehole!

I understand that I'm not perfect. I made mistakes and I had a hand in everything that's happened to me, good and bad.

I've managed to make a living in a very ridiculous business, and that's fine with me. The trick now is, after you've been in it for a while, you still have to remember to have fun.

What cannot be talked about cannot be put to rest. And if it is not, the wounds will fester from generation to generation.

To me, this is not an information age. It's an age of networked intelligence, it's an age of vast promise.

Things happen which would not happen without prayer. Let us not forget that.

The eating of meat extinguishes the seed of Great Kindness.

There are passages of the Bible that are soiled forever by the touches of the hands of ministers who delight in the cheap jokes they have left behind them.

Life is about fighting. You will going to have to fight everyday of your lifetime.