Darkness is only in the mortal eye, that thinks it sees, but sees not.

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.

Rats and roaches live by competition under the laws of supply and demand

...if you bare your arse to a vengeful unicorn, the number of possible outcomes dwindles to one.

He's an honest politician--he stays bought.

What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.

Plants are the original chemists. Their sophistication makes DuPont and Monsanto look like little kids with chemistry sets.

I always feel as if my books came half out of Lyell's brain... & therefore that when seeing a thing never seen by Lyell, one yet saw it partially through his eyes.

My first open mic, I drank a full pitcher of beer by myself. I wasn't afraid of being in front of people as much as, Is this funny?

Good kids are like sunsets. We take them for granted.

Get Carter is a classic, but it did nothing in the United States. It came out on a double bill with a Frank Sinatra western.

It's true, spectacular preparation always precedes spectacular performance.