Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.

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.

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.

Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art - the art of words.

I don't believe my house was haunted. I think I had an overactive imagination, and I was so convinced that those around me became convinced, too.

Your business is a part of yourself. Should it be? Who knows, but it sure feels that way. You can never really leave it.

Asked for your opinion on the prints, you have two choices: truth or tact. I ask for the bathroom.

The Bible says "faith without works is nothing" so destiny is great, fate is great, faith is great - but you still have to work at it. I don't just sit at home and wait for it all to unfold.

Our great social and political advantage is opportunity.

When I was a teenager, I was a voracious reader of crime fiction, but only contemporary books.

A tear-drop of green.

People's talk and the stories they tell have been engraved on my heart, and some of them have flown into my pen.

The score is always the wonderful icing. The score tells you the emotional content of the film. What the characters don't say, the music can say.

Let's look on the bright side: we're having an adventure, Fezzik, and most people live and die without being as lucky as we are.