There's nothing wrong with me...except acute chronic fear.

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.

Nature in everything demands respect, and those who violate her laws seldom violate them with impunity.

To sneer at his imperfect attempt was very bad breeding.

I really was about to pass out during my entire wedding. I just didn't know if I could marry anybody.

It does not spoil your happiness to confess your sin. The unhappiness is in not making the confession.

A self-esteem issue doesn't change whether you're considered beautiful or not because it's about what's inside you.

Nobody looks at the moon in the afternoon, and this is the moment when it would most require our attention, since its existence is still in doubt.

How unreliable is the woman caught being faithful! Today she is faithful to you, tomorrow to another.

Everybody is so terribly sensitive about the things they know best.

I visited my father for the full ten years that he was in prison, so we already had a deep and loving relationship, and remembered our mother at those times.

As long as space abides and as long as the world abides, so long may I abide, destroying the sufferings of the world.