To see a candle's light one must take it into a dark place.

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.

Wait in expectant of the desired wishes.

With your laugh my sorrows are relieved, with your love I forget about my problems, and by your side everything is better.

There is no I in Team, unless you count the vertical part of the T.

The next actor I meet that uses the term 'courageous' to describe another actor's performance is getting punched in the face.

One must fight to get to the top, especially if one starts at the bottom.

All good American literature is always interested in people who are ambiguously heroic, like Gatsby.

The pulpit is no place for self-promotion. It is a great place for self-deprecation.

There's very little of the intentional about the business of writing poetry, as least as far as I can see.

You don't have to convince Muslims of God's existence or importance.

I would say that I think the film [I am love] is absolutely about nature, it recommends human nature. You don't need to recommend change, that's inevitable, it's the only reliable thing we have.