Manipulated, one manipulates others.

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.

Begin to read, write, sing, dance, study, draw…!

For me, feminism is about equality. So, when someone works for a Wall Street firm and says they're a feminist, my eyes are going to roll.

It's kind of like I'm Phil Spector and I'm forcing a young girl to make pop music and perform exhaustively. Except, instead of it being someone else, that girl is also me.

God alone can make a man a believer. Our part is to accept or reject his initiative.

As a writer, my main objective is to tell the story urgently - as if whispering it into one ear - and to know the characters intimately.

My experiences in film and theatre in the States have been much more rigorous-in England there's an environment of, Let's try this.

I guess for me what is more significant than success is the nature of each of the songs and of the words.

With eternity to draw on there could be no reason for hurrying - 'hurry' was not a concept in Martian.

I'm grateful that music has been a place where I've found freedom.

My existence was never a Francis Ford Coppola existence.