Consciousness is the glory of creation.

I'm happy to report that my inner child is still ageless.

If bitterness wants to get into the act, I offer it a cookie or a gumdrop.

True delicacy is not a fragile thing.

The only limits are, as always, those of vision.

At every crossroad, be prepared to bump into wonder.

Trusting your individual uniqueness challenges you to lay yourself open.

I had a toy theater and a magic lantern, and when I was eight I built a stage for theatricals in the attic.

I tried to stir the imagination and enthusiasms of students to take risks, to do what they were most afraid of doing, to widen their horizons of action.

Amazement awaits us at every corner.

Follow your own weird.

Books—all books—are complicated things, muttering at us in different contradictory voices, refusing to stay the same when we go back to them. Tying them down too much robs of them of the magic.

Lies can be formed from truth, but truth cannot be formed from lies.

He did it for that bubbling, champagne-in-the-veins high, that desire to be part of someone else’s new life, someone else’s realised potential.Vampires must feel like that.

Revenge and rational thought never sleep together.

Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss.

Truly, our greatest blessings are very cheap.

It’s history. It’s poetry.

I do not know when Christ is coming back. No one knows. But I do think the environment is getting more and more to the point where we can look for his return.

I never forget. I never forgive. I can wait. I find it very easy to harbor a grudge. I have scores to settle.

No matter how much you want to say you've got all these plans ahead. The moment is all you got.