Without stories, we'd have even more trouble recognizing what's real.

A library is the only single place you can go to learn something new, be comforted, terrified, thrilled, saddened, overjoyed, or excited all in one day. And for free.

I'm pretty sure that eating chocolate keeps wrinkles away because I have never seen a 10 year old with a Hershey bar and crows feet.

The worst kind of brokenness is the kind that you don’t know you have.

It's 4:58 on Friday afternoon. Do you know where your margarita is?

I don’t have to be logical. I’m a leopard. We’re considered wild animals, you know.

Magic is always there. Sometimes it just takes an artist to find it and show the rest of us where to look.

All great roads are paved with uncomfortable memories.

Choices are powerful things. In fact, they're more powerful than most things.

Imperfections don’t make something ugly.

Death is only as strong as you believe it to be.

As joy dwindles with the yearsI wistfully recallWhen the christmas treeLooked ten feet tallAnd the presents under itSeemed endless And more Than mere wrapping paper.

Gleaning is getting things that are abandoned. I did not abandon my early pictures, my photos, my early films. It's just going through my body of work as something I can pick from.

Since 1937, about half the forests in the world have been cut down to make paper. If hemp had not been outlawed, most would still be standing, oxygenating the planet.

A friendship formed in childhood, in youth,--by happy accident at any stage of rising manhood,--becomes the genius that rules the rest of life.

When there is no middle class, and the poor greatly exceed in number, troubles arise, and the state soon comes to an end.

My sister is a teacher, so I am a strong support of teachers, but I'm not going to be bound by just a certain way of talking about these things, in order for us to move forward on behalf of our kids.

People are so damned afraid that one day they might wake up and discover that they've grown old.

A person you excuse from any genuine challenge is a person you do not truly respect.

Madness doesn't happen to someone alone. Very few people have experiences that are theirs alone.

Whatever it is that you wish to experience more of in your life, be the source of it in the life of another.