I can never get used to the fact, though I know it, that women are born cynics. Men have to learn cynicism. Infant girls could teach it to 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 will be glad to go. There is no poetry here. It is as I have always set forth: joy comes of its own free will

Don’t rush to justify yourself with a verbal argument

He had the arrogance of the believer, but none of the humility of the deeply religious.

To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization.

In Adam's Fall We sinned all.

I have a great belief in the future of my people and my country.

My scars show pain and suffering, but they also show my will to survive. They're part of my history that'll always be there.

Though this nation has proudly thought of itself as an ethnic melting pot, in things racial we have always been and I believe continue to be, in too many ways, essentially a nation of cowards

Our Lord loves you and loves you tenderly.

Sometimes I'll get to the end of a song, open my eyes and there's all these faces peering at me. It's quite horrifying.