We broke the world to make it whole.

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.

Life is a rich literature.

Don't use yesterday's state of mind, to make today's decision.

Snakes hide in grass, people behind their lies.

On top of that, we have a healthy and stable economy and an end to the boom and bust that characterised the Tory years.

When speech is divorced from speaker and word from meaning, what is left is just ritual, language as ritual.

Punk is just as much a form of folk music as anything is!

Maybe the greatest madness is to see life as it is rather than what it could be.

The kind of women I'm interested in - they're smart enough.

The road to success is not a path you find, but a trail you blaze.

To have acted otherwise ... would have been the betrayal of the interests of the United States.