She had always known that all lives are in common, rejoicing in her kinship to the fish in the tanks of her laboratories, seeking the experience of existences outside the human boundary.

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.

You cannot face it steadily, but this thing is sure, That time is no healer: the patient is no longer here.

He's always preparing you for that glorious life, even in your tough times.

Talk for people and not about them. Unless you have love in your heart, refrain from discussing another person.

I did calligraphy for the invitations for, like, Robin Thicke and Paula Patton's wedding.

I would go on the iTunes chart and see the hottest songs, then I'd cover them. People would go on YouTube and search for those songs. That's how I got my views. I'd post two or three songs a week.

Regardless of your ethnicity or anything, if you do great work, people will notice and you'll get hired.

Take away a nation's heritage and they are more easily persuaded.

THE MAJORITY of children born into the world tend to inherit the beliefs of their parents, and that to me is one of the most regrettable facts of them all

If you're not getting any bad reviews, you're not taking enough risks

A lot of my music is more about the possibilities of acknowledging something, rather than giving you an answer.