Sometimes you must go against the wheel's turn.

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.

Thank God for all my troubles, he made me trust in Him.

im in love with you and im not in the business of denying myself the simple pleasure of saying true things.

I know I’m an African-American, and I know I play the saxophone, but I’m not a jazz musician. I’m not a classical musician, either. My music is like my life: It’s in between these areas.

It always boils down to the same thing - not only receiving love, but desperately needing to give it.

Cultivate those who can teach you.

I hope something happens. I'm restless as the devil and have a horror of getting fat or falling in love and growing domestic.

The main thing about archery is a battle with yourself. You can ruin it all. Once you have learned the technique, the point is to recreate the perfect technique over and over and over.

Life is very tough. If you don't laugh, it's tough.

Ask yourself, 'What is obstructing my vision?' What is the difference between seeing and looking?

I guess destiny isn't the path chosen for us, but the path we chose for ourselves.