We hold each other's lives in our open hands, not in clenched fists.

Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it.

We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself.

Using the device of an imaginary world allows me in some strange way to go to the central issues - it's one of many ways to express feelings about real people, about real human relationships.

Craftsmanship isn't like water in an earthen pot, to be taken out by the dipperful until it's empty. No, the more drawn out the more remains.

Keep reading. It's one of the most marvelous adventures that anyone can have.

He [the cat] liked to peep into the refrigerator and risk having his head shut in by the closing door. He also climbed to the top of the stove, discontinuing the practice after he singed his tail.

The only thing a cat worries about is what's happening right now. As we tell the kittens, you can only wash one paw at a time.

Is there worse evil than that which goes in the mask of good?

Seize the day, whatever's in it to seize, before something comes along and seizes you.

Thinking is a bit uncomfortable, but you'll get used to it. A matter of time and practice.

I've got a dream lover, so I don't have to dream alone.

There is only one true thing: instantly paint what you see. When you've got it, you've got it. When you haven't, you begin again. All the rest is humbug.

Dreams are the directions to the rest of your life!

Achieving climate security must be the core of foreign policy. All of us have to pick up the pace.

human beings seem to hold on more tenaciously to a cultural identity that is learned through suffering than to one that has been acquired through pleasure and delight.

The accumulation of cultural capital - the acquisition of knowledge - is the key to social mobility.

Cinema can fill in the empty spaces of your life and your loneliness.

Low carbon, resource efficient solutions and halting then reversing population growth are two sides of the same coin

The direction worth going in isn't up, down, forward, or backward. It's towards. And beyond.

O mischief, thou art swift to enter in the thoughts of desperate men!