No matter how intelligent a man is, he can't see what he doesn't know how to see.

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.

Fantasy is an excellent platform to shine new lights on old truths.

The prison bars deny you the now. You are forced to always think about the past or the future.

I'm terrible with patience.

Never talk for half a minute without pausing and giving others a chance to join in.

I'm so fortunate in that I've never had another job to pay a bill but acting, since the day I got out of high school.

Art in the blood is liable to take the strangest forms.

The extraordinary's the norm.

Going around under an umbrella interferes with one's looking up at the sky.

I do know where I'm going and it's just a matter of finding the language to get there.