When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons.

Don't fret, we'll sort this out: the true and the not true and the might as well be true.

My wish for the new millennium is for all children... to grow up wiser, and stronger and more prosperous for the future than ever before.

It is the sweetest spring within the memory of man. So green, so mild, so beautiful! Ah, what a contrast between nature without and my own soul so torn with doubt and terror!

Every man has his dignity. I'm willing to forget mine, but at my own discretion and not when someone else tells me to.

He drew a circle that shut me out- Heretic , rebel, a thing to flout. But love and I had the wit to win: We drew a circle and took him In ! From the poem " Outwitted

If you really do want to be an actor who can satisfy himself and his audience, you need to be vulnerable.

I don't feel like taking pictures with anyone [or] doing anything. I just like chillin'.

I only wish I had more time for fund raising.

The most fun thing about being a writer is that everything is interesting.

It’s only the sea,’ said Moomintroll. ‘Every wave that dies on the beach sings a little song to a shell. But you mustn’t go inside because it’s a labyrinth and you may never come out again.