When the genuine myth rises into consciousness, that is always its message. You must change your life.

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.

Well, laddie, if you've let an old buzzard like me hurt you confidence, you couldn't have had much in the first place.

I made my living being 20 or 30 pounds heavier than the average model. And that's where I got famous.

E'er you remark another's sin, bid your own conscience look within.

The propensity to swindle grows parallel with the propensity to speculate during a boom the implosion of an asset price bubble always leads to the discovery of frauds and swindles

Purity does not mean crushing the instincts but having the instincts as servants and not the master of the spirit.

The dream is already ended and we're already awake in the golden eternity.

Men will spend their health getting wealth. Then, gladly pay all they have earned to get health back.

I love the past. There are parts of the past I hate, of course.

The truth is that in my present life I don't remember that I ever was president.

Have you noticed that the people who actually make the laws, the people in power, never make laws for themselves?