In innocence there is no strength against evil, said Sparrowhawk, a little wryly. But there is strength in it for good.

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.

The Giants were supposed to have a new motto, 'Shut up and deal.'

An artist in my view is always afraid of extremists; he is always afraid of those who claim to have found the ultimate solution to any question.

No-one wants to hear anything spoken in earnest anymore, unless it happens to involve unrequited, teenage love.

love is always in danger of being sentimentalized.

I also want to thank Arizona citizens for their efforts at conserving energy last summer.

He who considers himself a paragon of wisdom is sure to commit some superlatively stupid act.

I don't feel alienated from American culture, but I understand people who do.

No matter that if we are at our top or down at bottom , hope that everyone will give a lot of love to us .

For me as an actor, daring is to tell the truth - to be yourself, no matter how the world interacts with that.

Rats and roaches live by competition under the laws of supply and demand; it is the privilege of human beings to live under the laws of justice and mercy.