You know there’s always prejudice in a revolutionary movement.

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.

When one has nothing to lose, one becomes courageous. We are timid only when there is something we can still cling to.

Dear Internet: You are very good at spreading rumors. Truth is more valuable and much harder to come by.

The most human thing we can do is comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.

I was seeing everything through pain.

Actually I am very glad that people can buy Armani - even if it's a fake. I like the fact that I'm so popular around the world.

I write scripts to serve as skeletons awaiting the flesh and sinew of images.

Don't worry, fairy vomit is no doubt sweet-smelling to humans.

When the law disarms good guys, bad guys rejoice.

Earlier on in my career I felt that I had to hide behind a lot of different masks, and showboat ways of performing. Now, that's a lie. The less I have to hide, the less I have to act.