Success is somebody else's failure.

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.

Money and power attract friends. But it’s not you they’re friends with — just your money and power. Only affection brings genuine friends.

Honest differences are often a healthy sign of progress.

If you don't want to use the army I should like to borrow it for a while. Yours respectfully

There is a garbage culture out there, where we pour garbage on people. Then the pollsters run around and take a poll and say, do you smell anything?

The inbox is the perfect delivery system of other people's priorities.

Remorse sleeps during a prosperous period but wakes up in adversity.

No, the thing is, we all love storytelling, and as a writer you get to tell stories all the time.

I got very interested in attention and awareness and how to achieve certain states through understanding this.

in this world there is only toleration for the so-called normal.

I am extremely active and conscious of not eating any processed foods.