Progress means nothing to presence.

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.

When you don't see nothing wrong in anything you do, then you are doing everything wrong.

You're different. You are the virgin who stayed.

Do not go gentle into that good night Old age should burn and rave at close of day Rage rage against the dying of the light.

By your hand, millions - billions - of lives will be altered, caught up in a chain of events begun by you this day.

Most people get their politics, obviously, from TV shows about senators or movies about them or... all the day-to-day press and the talk shows.

As a conservative who believes in limited government, I believe that the only check on government power in real time is a free and independent press.

Yeah I live of my music. Why does everyone ask me that? Is my music that absurd that nobody could possibly be buying it?