Up here on the Ice each of us is singular, isolate, I as cut off from those like me, from my society, and its rules, as he from his.

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.

When we leave this life, we only get to take two things: the love we received and the lessons we learned.

Socialism is an insurance policy bought by all the members of a national economy to shield them from risk. But the result is to shield them from knowledge of the real dangers and opportunities.

Only the dead, can speak about their world.

I never considered myself a performance artist.

It's so much easier to do press if you take positions that the press likes than to take conservative Republican positions.

I'm spiritual! You know what spiritual means! Me and God has a good relationship. I'm in tune with the universe, the sun, moon, and stars. I'm in tune with the jinns that are all around us.

To teach is part of the very fabric of learning.

People who are busy and happy don't write diaries; they are too busy living.

If they want to take all the belts, they can take them, but they'll never take what I've done and my achievements.

I was never nervous. That's not me, ... Nervousness, scariness, that's not even in our vocabulary.