Nobody who says, ‘I told you so’ has ever been, or will ever be, a hero.

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.

What you consistently Believe in your Spirit becomes a Reality with time

Darkness is drawn to light, but light does not know it; light must absorb the darkness and therefore meet its own extinguishment.

A gamester, as such, is the cool, calculating, essential spirit of concentrated, avaricious selfishness.

As long as you have war, police, prisons, crime, you are in the early stages of civilization.

I think there's an innate sexuality that is attached to vampires and werewolves. It's passionate and sexual, undeniably so.

It's the duty of all novelists, all painters, all musicians, all people who try to make art move: to look for something they feel authentically, without paying attention to styles.

I think Christine and Chad are on the opposite extremes of the spectrum. Christine is a model victim, and Chad is a model perpetrator, and Howard is closer to the middle.

Well, at least you have led us to the small mailman and the one who smells of prunes." - "UP

Art is always good. It just depends if you like or not.