Ah, genre. A word only a Frenchman could love.

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.

Journalism is unreadable, and literature is unread.

In our recovery package we put new standards of accountability and transparency, which we hope will now apply.

Trophies and medals have never meant much to me. I've had amazing experiences, which let you feel like you've accomplished something.

I explained to the lady my love for John and his work, and she made it possible for me to purchase one of the 24 proofs, the one for 'I'm So Tired,' which I have on my piano at home.

Wherever I go, I run into myself.

Playing football was like being trapped in a rhythm, and my whole career was like that. You have very little time to switch off.

At length I fell asleep, with the volume in my hand; and never slept so sound before

Capitalism is the greatest system ever created for alleviating general human misery, and yet it breeds ingratitude.

Unexampled bravery, born of nonviolence, coupled with strict honesty shown by a fair number of Muslims, is sure to infect the whole of India.

Remember that to change your mind and follow him who sets you right is to be none the less free than you were before.