I think hard times are coming. We will need writers who can remember freedom. Poets, visionaries, the realists of a larger reality.

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.

Over the wintry forest, winds howl in rage with no leaves to blow.

Women respond to comfort and a sense of humor. I was always able to make them laugh, so that helps a lot.

I wanted a more female point of view.

In my view, Africa's real problems are cultural.

I think subconsciously people are remarkably discerning. I think that they can sense care.

Donald Trump is a bully who thrives on division.

Most of the time in our world, truth is just opinion.

I will never hurt you. I will always help you. If you are hungry Ill give you my food. If you are frightened I am your friend. I love you now. And love does not end.

I was a hero, and a second afterwards it was all over. Casartelli was dead so what I had achieved was worth nothing.

Most of the time, it's your thinking, not your talent, that holds you back.