I have decided that the trouble with print is, it never changes its mind.

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.

It could have been so beautiful.The way I learned and got free and swore to never love another person ever againand it could have been so beautiful, the way I actually did.

I don't come from a family of readers - in fact, my parents are unable to read the books in English.

I think that if you're a good enough actor you hope that eventually the material will find you.

When I was arrested I was dressed in black

This manual of the Communist Party should be in the hands of every loyal American, that they may be alerted to the fact that it is not always by armies and guns that a nation is conquered.

I know nothing about this subject, but I do have prejudices, which I am more than happy to share with you.

I guess the issue for me is to keep things dynamic.

In many ways I'm an experimental and new music composer that comes from a rural tradition rather than an urban one.

Getting married is like putting one's hand in a bag containing 99 serpents and one eel.

When I said I was going to audition for a film, I got a hearty laugh from all my family.