When I'm writing I don't dream much; it's like the dreaming gets used in the writing.

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.

Always do your best to be yourself. Learn to listen to your inner-voice. This is your true authenticity

Your breaking point is often your blessing point.

Frank Sinatra is the only one that went from teen idol to superstar.

The Guide is definitive. Reality is frequently inaccurate.

I feel a lot of life in me and a lot of creative energy and I think it's better suited somewhere it can run free.

Everywhere we go, Nancy makes the world a little better.

I just wish that God or my parents or Sam or my sister or someone would just tell me what's wrong with me. Just tell me how to be different in a way that makes sense. To make this all go away.

Let me purify my thoughts and words and deeds that I may be a vehicle for thee.

The manager does things right; the leader does the right thing.

I think Ray Charles did as much as anybody when he did his country music album. Ray Charles broke down borders and showed the similarities between country music and R&B.