If civilization has an opposite, it is war. Of these two things, you have either one, or the other. Not both.

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 is hard to convince people of this, but oatmeal truly is miraculous. It gives you an amazing amount of energy, like cocaine.

You always remember the delicacy of the work you do on a new play - the delicacy and the rigor and the courage.

I love what I do, but it is hard to have a personal relationship when you're never home.

I don't want to hear the specials. If they're so special, put 'em on the menu.

Remember, it’s the quality of your ideas not the quantity that will result in the big money.

It's lovely to get to say hello to people you've always admired from afar, but the fun really starts out front with people going commando whilst wearing daring mud suits.

Making a company fit to sell may be the only way to ensure you never need a buyer.

People who are always thinking of the feelings of others can be very destructive because they are hiding so much from themselves.

Find your domain and serve it to the world.