If a book were written all in numbers, it would be true. It would be just. Nothing said in words ever came out quite even.

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.

Faith is timeless possibility.

Contrary to popular belief, you can make people think, but they will hate you for it.

One minute of sincere gratitude can wash away a lifetime’s disappointments.

We all have the potential to do terrible things. But we also have the potential to overcome our mistakes.

You can follow others into mediocrity, or you can create something that will be remembered

I don't eat carbs after 17h00 and I drink skimmed milk.

The first song I did was over a Chief Keef beat - Understand Me. I did that in, like, 2011 or 2012, I think.

I’ve learnt to listen. I don’t think I always did listen. Not just in plays, but in life. And you have to hear what people are saying before you can respond.

Celebrate the Sacred in the ordinary.

I met Claxton on the set of The Cincinnati Kid.