Owning is owing, having is hoarding.

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.

I melted into the dream as if I had always been there. I knew where I had come from

Doubt tempers belief with sanity.

Or people who have one baby and go buy a minivan... how big is your baby?

The key to winning baseball games is pitching, fundamentals, and three run homers.

There's no bigger pain anywhere in the world than a vegetarian.

I know what it takes to win ball games.

I have turned down so many major advertising bids because I think either the time isn't right or I'm not.

The right to life does not depend, and must not be declared to be contingent, on the pleasure of anyone else, not even a parent or sovereign.

Firmness is great; persistency is greater.

I try to be authentic - but at the same time I don't really want people prying into my personal life.