What is an anarchist? One who, choosing, accepts the responsibility of choice.

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.

Use meditation and blissful perceptions to create inner peace and world peace.

The one who realizes the mistake, seeks forgiveness and searches for kindness, must be forgiven.

I don't want the natural athlete -- I want a guy who'll go after the hard ones.

Any good biography has to got to lead you to the work. Many biographers have started out in love with their subjects and ended up hating them.

You cannot avoid mortality. But you can choose your way of meeting it. And that is the most that any man can hope for.

It can't rain all the time.

I've never actually seen a 3-D movie. I've seen some dailies in 3-D and it kind of gives me a headache. But it looks really cool.

Men have no better guidance than examples and facts proved by experience.

But time has caught up with it and I think vindicated it. Shampoo, too: very dark, very ambitious movie.

Show me a sexual practice that involves ice cubes and hot sauce, and I will show you a sexual practice that would be improved without them.