At the pit's bottom is no anger.

A profound love between two people involves, after all, the power and chance of doing profound hurt.

Truth is a matter of the imagination.

I'll make my report as if I told a story, for I was taught as a child on my homeworld that Truth is a matter of the imagination.

The artist deals with what cannot be said in words. The novelist says in words what cannot be said in words.

The king was pregnant.

The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty: not knowing what comes next.

But it doesn't take a thousand men to open a door, my lord.""It might to keep it open.

Of course there is no veneer, the process is one of growth, and primitiveness and civilization are degrees of the same thing. If civilization has an opposite, it is war.

Why are my sons followed thus by darkness?'...'Because they were born in the house of flesh, therefore death follows at their heels.

It is yin and yang. Light is the left hand of darkness... how did it go? Light, dark. Fear, courage. Cold, warmth. Female, male. It is yourself, Therem. Both and one. A shadow on snow.

Our education system often teaches us how to conform more than how to wonder and venture.

I love my friendsneither with my heart nor with my mind. Just in case…Heart might stop. Mind can forget. I love them with my soul. Soul never stops or forgets.

In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

If I have any advice to anybody it's this: take up watercolor painting.

I see a lot of true artists... then you see them on the cover of Maxim. That's the lowest of low to me. I would never do anything like that.

Without animals, there would be no humanity. In a world of just people, people will mean nothing . . .

If we have anything to offer, as filmmakers and as TV makers now, it's this ability to feel as close to a documentary as you can get in a narrative form.

At the end of the day, it's about the best interests of the children.

Whatever kind of device or barrier or policy to secure the border, that's necessary to secure the border, then do it.

She can't see me staring at her cause I'm always wearing shades.