Wrongs done could not be righted, but at least they were not still being done.

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.

It's HE-RO, " the boy argued."No, " the girl insisted, "it's HER-O.

Damn, her mouth was a weapon.

Fame for the lames, fortune for the brains.

The Supreme Court has always been the last bastion of the protection of our freedoms.

Confidence in nonsense is required.

I was also fortunate that I was raised in a part of the world, West Texas, where individualism is strong.

Almost everybody's happy to be a fool for love.

I don't pull out because... it's not my problem.

I really think that reading a whole script is kind of prying and neurotic, don't you?

I think that there's no doubt that to work in film is a bit more of a creative journey. It's not that I don't put the same time or heart into something that's on television.