Prose writers are interested mostly in life and commas.

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.

Take, this day, my handand promise to absolvewhat my forefathers and I didto you and your kin.

If Pride leads the Van, Beggary brings up the Rear.

Love is a contradiction.

The existence of forgetting has never been proved: We only know that some things don't come to mind when we want them.

John Wayne is not just an actor, and a very fine actor - John Wayne is the United States of America.

You can't change how people treat you or what they say about you. All you can do is change how you react to it.

I often feel that life is about to begin, only to realize it is almost over.

I would guess that the price of the script really is secondary. The credit is much more the essence.

We prefer a meaningless collective guilt to a meaningful individual responsibility