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.

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.

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.

Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art - the art of words.

Love is not everything ... It is only when we are young that we think it is.

It's been my experience that the longer I do yoga, the more I want to know, the more I am able to understand and the less judgmental I am.

If Hillary Clinton becomes president, America is going to be in some mess.

That which is not forbidden, is not on that account permitted.

Drunks conjure an endless drama from their bottles.

We are expanded by tears, we are told, not reduced by them.

People have to eat and it's good to have a last-resort dole they can turn to.

A lot of us don't want to be quite that serious about world problems. Our life is there to enjoy, not to be an eternal dissident, eternally unhappy with how things are and with the state of mankind.

It is of note that for a long time moral nihilism was a kind of unquestioned default position in analytic moral philosophy.

That Hugh Laurie show is nothing but Scrubs fan fiction.