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.

Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art - the art of words.

Storytellers are individuals who enjoy creating a holiday for the mind.

I wanted to laugh. Or maybe get mad. Or maybe shrug at how strange everyone was, especially me.

I was blinded by being a romantic person.

As we take stock of this century of achievement, Ulster Unionists have every reason to feel proud.

My way of telling stories is kind of what I do naturally. It's no different from how I would talk to you if you were in my living room.

No one ever got ahead by going through the motions. You have to constantly be improving yourself. Make your life the masterpiece you want it to be.

Dancing?' Annabeth asked. Thalia nodded. She cocked her ear to the music and made a face. 'Ugh. Who chose Jesse McCartney?' Grover looked hurt. 'I did.

There isn't a class structure in Nigeria, there's a tribal structure and prestige as far as money is concerned.

Black folks don't have a chance, so they are in the hood, dealing drugs, in a shoot-out. They do it again and one more time they are out.

My wealth has come from a combination of living in America, some lucky genes, and compound interest.