It is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception and compassion and hope.

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.

Her giggles were light in my darkness.

That's how I grew up - it wasn't cool to not have a good system.

Not the zeal alone of those who seek Him proves God, but the blindness of those who seek Him not.

Europeans are greater than they have been since any time since the end of the Cold War.

We all choose things, and we also all choose against things. I want to be the kind of person who chooses for more than chooses against.

There are things that are not sayable. That’s why we have art.

I'm the most antimedication person, but some people need medicine, and there was a time where I needed some too.

I've always looked upon politics as a very boring thing. Politics never interested me as much as the people involved in it.

When we define democracy now it must still be as a thing hoped for but not seen.

To Harry Secombe: I hope you die first as I don't want you singing at my funeral.