The end justifies the means. But what if there never is an end? All we have is means.

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.

Most fan fiction is terrible.

From the errors of others, a wise man corrects his own.

Collage-making, for me, is basically an act of painting, allowing me to indulge in an appetite for immediacy.

I have gotten so used to melancholia that I greet it like an old friend.

I find that fact and fancy look alike across the years that link the past with the present.

Money is like hormones. It's just how you feel on any given day.

We are a nation of laws, and we will always act within the bounds of the law.

People shouldn't notice what you're wearing before they notice you. You want people to register you first. 'Oh, what a nice jacket' should be an afterthought if you're doing it right.

What is remembered is what becomes reality.

Why tell me that a man is a fine speaker, if it is not the truth that he is speaking?