All makers must leave room for the acts of the spirit. But they have to work hard and carefully, and wait patiently, to deserve them.

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.

I expect at some point I'll probably want to go back on stage and do some theater, because I've not done theater in 10 years.

Antisappointment. Anticipation colliding head-on with the certainty of its own doom.

I do a lot of marathons as training runs. If I'm somewhere and there's a marathon, I'll sign up and just go run it.

I think being a competitive diver for years helps you focus and dedicate yourself to what's needed.

The day Obama got elected, the gangsta became less relevant.

Every individual who is not creative has a negative, narrow, exclusive taste and succeeds in depriving creative being of its energy and life.

Love is just a feeling of togetherness and openness in your heart.

I think society is entitled to recognize marriage as an institution that involves one man and one woman.

Your current thinking got you here. Only new thinking will get you out.

Any attempt at understanding humanity must include an explanation of the hold that supernatural belief continues to have on most of the human race.