You go to the Place of the Lie to find out the truth?

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.

The best way to see Faith is to shut the eye of Reason.

Those who say – “I need Motivation” will never create Inspiration that will take them to their Destination.-RVM

I feel jealous, I want to be something your mind consumes the most.

It's hard to kill that father-son bond.

I often feel the effects of people only after they leave me.

For me, places have a tremendous impact. I fall in love with places. All of life seems different in different places.

Live music is better.

I used to go into the studio around midnight and stay all night.

I'm not a very confessional artist, you know. I don't ever reveal what I'm feeling in my work, or what I think about the President. I use nature. I use found images.

As Camille Paglia's success has demonstrated, what is most marketable is absolutism and attitude undiluted by thought.