If you want to know all about the sea ... and ask the sea itself, what does it say? Grumble grumble swish swish. It is too busy being itself to know anything about itself.

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.

He who stands by his heart has God in him. Our conscience is what unites us with God.

I sometimes think that I don't have a purpose in this world. I am simply useless and wandering.

One paid for one's knowledge with one's skin.

Not only do unemployment benefits help families who are hurting they also put money into their pockets that they'll then spend - and their spending will keep other Americans in jobs.

Who's going to manage (health savings accounts)?. It's not going to be your local accountant, it's going to be Fidelity.

I see no sin in a kiss. I only see sin in the condemnation

I don't go to mythical places with strange men.

Truth is poetry; it is the grandest poetry.

I think that I the biggest thing that I need is more creative time. More time to make mistakes.

As a sensitive and highly intuitive person in the command-and-control corporate world, I always felt miscast.