The desire for power feeds off itself, growing as it devours.

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.

If we want to be endowed with rights – real human rights, we have to act with responsibility. We must not be comfortable with rights. We must be comfortable with responsibility.

i dream nights and girls like tigers, claws and teeth on both.

I don't care what the haters and naysayers say. If they make jokes about me, I'll laugh because they'll probably be funny.

I'm trying to quit huffing epoxy glue out of grocery bags.

Here's your protection for whatever comes: Find something to be happy about every day, and every hour if possible, moment-to-moment, even if only for a few minutes.

Every complex problem has a simple solution that doesn't work.

You can not make me pick between my roles! That is like making me pick between my children!

Everest for me, and I believe for the world, is the physical and symbolic manifestation of overcoming odds to achieve a dream

I think any good artist - and I'm not saying that I am one - takes notes and should first emulate their heroes and then try to move beyond them.

If you come into my house, I'm going to fight much more viciously to get you out than if we were on a neutral piece of land.