Art is action. The way I live my life to its highest degree is by writing, the practice of art.

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.

Be a candle of light in someone’s life this holy season.

Love your body. Exercise for 10-15 minutes daily.

I wish the Irish had never invented whiskey, " Pat said. Mr. O'Malley smirked, "The Irish didn't invent it. God did. It was his way of keepin' the Irish from takin' over the world.

God is strongest when we are weakest.

Merely being human is morally significant.

Sexual chaos reigns currently, but out of chaos may flow true understanding and harmony, and either way Elvis almost singlehandedly opened the floodgates.

The weird people are the best ones! All of my friends are weird.

Being independent... is being innovative out of inspiration as well as necessity.

And if you are somebody who needs to get a pat on the back for everything that you do, editorial is not for you.

I've never done real sci-fi. I've never played an alien. I've never played some sort of superhero. Which I'd love to do!