I was inspired to write children's books, but without blood and gore.

In choosing not to be a beast, I discovered my humanity. I became autodidactic, self-educated - a critical thinker.

If you're going to teach a child, teach him properly.

I shouldn't wonder if you didn't wonder much too much!

Quite frankly we are both tired of the race we have been asked to run.

Murdered by a kind of fear that seeks to obliterate any evidence that the world is different from the way they want to see it, from the way they want to believe it to be.

Climate change: I say the debate is over. We know the science, we see the threat and we know that the time for action is now

There is the plain fool who does the wrong thing at all times anywhere, but there is the Wall Street fool who thinks he must trade all the time.

A king there was once reigning, Who had a goodly flea, Him loved he without feigning, As his own son were he!

Aspirations after the holy,--the only aspiration in which the human soul can be assured that it will never meet with disappointment.

My inspiration always comes from different places. Sometimes it's a piece of music or being in nature or seeing a film or reading a magazine. I find inspiration everywhere.

Technically speaking, you drive like a rabid chicken who has hijacked a tractor.

I'm interested in Jackson Pollock's kind of art, where art is beautiful, but it's nothing, and yet it's incredible.