There ought to be three traditions in the art of humanity: the realistic, the visionary and the wild.

The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.

The magician and the politician have much in common: they both have to draw our attention away from what they are really doing.

We have not yet arrived, but every point at which we stop requires a re-definition of our destination.

When you can imagine you begin to create and when you begin to create you realize that you can create a world that you prefer to live in, rather than a world that you're suffering in.

We have fallen into this very mean description of humanity. Naturalism in fiction is too reductive in its definition of human beings.

Beware of the stories you read or tell; subtly, at night, beneath the waters of consciousness, they are altering your world.

Stories are the secret reservoir of values: change the stories individuals and nations live by and tell themselves, and you change the individuals and nations.

The law is simple. Every experience is repeated or suffered till you experience it properly and fully the first time.

What you see is what you make. What you see in a people is what you eventually create in them.

The fact of storytelling hints at a fundamental human unease, hints at human imperfection. Where there is perfection there is no story to tell.

The teacher is the one who gets the most out of the lessons, and the true teacher is the learner.

How we can stay faithful to the people that have supported us from the beginning is a thought in my mind. I always want to keep that part of it alive.

Because she favours solitude and indwelling, an artist can live a significantly more claustrophobic life that she had ever intended.

The way to elegancy of style is to employ your pen upon every errand; and the more trivial and dry it is, the more brains must be allowed for sauce.

The outside world is what kept Buffy and Angel from being together.

Self-confidence is nothing more than belief in one’s ability to decide and in one’s decisions.

... wealth and female softness equally tend to debase mankind!

The international community should support a system of laws to regularize international relations and maintain the peace in the same manner that law governs national order.

Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.

The sun was like a word written between the sea and the sky, a word that was swallowed up by the sea before any man had time to read it.