Nothing is yours. It is to use. It is to share. If you will not share it, you cannot use it.

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.

Life's too short to lay in wait. A soul is meant to love and love is all there is.

He looked like someone pretending to be a knight, which was bad. He figured pretending to be something he actually wanted to be was just asking for it.

Wherever you are, you must shine.

The artist committing himself to his calling has volunteered for hell.

Yesterday misspent can't be recall'd Vanity makes beauty contemptible Wisdom is more valuable than riches.

Those who know the normal life of the poor... will realize well enough that without economic security, liberty is not worth having.

Here Lies Julius Schwartz. He met his last deadline.

Consciousness will not always solve the problem, but it may make the suffering meaningful.

I can't stop pointing to the beauty. Every moment and place says, 'Put this design in your carpet!'

Why, this hath not a finger's dignity.