To hear, one must be silent.

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.

You were born a child of light’s wonderful secret— you return to the beauty you have always been.

Intimacy is the capacity to be rather weird with someone - and finding that that's ok with them.

One does not go to Moscow to get fat.

Literature flourishes best when it is half a trade and half an art.

The greatness of the Raiders lies in their future.

I worked hard to meet his eyes, even though they were the kind of pretty that's hard to look at.

The devil could change. He was once an angel and may be evolving still.

I know from personal conversation and from personal interaction, that Hillary Clinton cares deeply about issues of inclusion.

Traumatic events always happen exactly two years before I reach the maturity level to deal with them.

Faith is obscure. By faith a man moves through darkness; but he moves securely, his hand in the hand of God. He is literally seeing through the eyes of God.