The model of modern Western civilization is the virus: the pure bit of information, which turns its environment into endless reproductions of itself.

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.

All earthly desires are but streams, but God is the ocean.

If they don’t respect you, respect yourself and leave that situation.

Money is power, freedom, a cushion, the root of all evil, the sum of blessings.

If you hit, they're going to like you. If you don't hit, they're not going to like you.

The world will not be inherited by the strongest, it will be inherited by those most able to change.

I am a supporter of the state of Israel.

Scientists have found the gene for shyness. They would have found it years ago, but it was hiding behind a couple of other genes.

America remembers. On this 12th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, the nation honors those who were lost.

A lot of times people come up to me saying 'oh my god you can see,' and they think they're the first person to think of that joke, but they're probably the 10,000th one to say that joke.

If you would seek health, look first to the spine.