The power of the harasser, the abuser, the rapist depends above all on the silence of women.

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.

The human mind can bear plenty of reality but not too much unintermit-tent gloom.

Every time you open your mouth you let men look into your mind.

You get kind of bored being in catalogues all the time.

Success is no longer content. It's how it sells.

The Dance - it is the rhythm of all that dies in order to live again; it is the eternal rising of the sun.

I see something in her eyes, sends me to a better place.

Genuine thanksgiving is a response to both who God is and what He has done, is doing, and will do.

Comedy has traditionally been about fear of embarrassment.

I don't want riders who work physically hard. Work by thinking.

The future cannot be legislated. All that can be done is to anticipate its most important movements and to clear the path for them.