When the enemy enthusiastically embraces you, and the fellow countrymen bitterly reject you, it is hard not to wonder if you are, in fact, a traitor.

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 feel sorry for anyone who is in a place where he feels strange and stupid.

A moderately bad man knows he is not very good

I would I were alive again to kiss the fingers of the rain.

Creativity is the art that can give rise to visionary metaphorical relationships, as opposed to purely psy-chological ones.

Our contemporary life is based on information that can change at any time.

I've been in this business so long, it just doesn't faze me. I know what's going to happen before it happens.

The way to infinite joy is through the elimination of desire, - no attachments, no aversions.

Random Roles? Oh, I saw Virginia Madsen do this the other day! You see? I'm paying attention!

Why do you not practise what you preach.

But if you think of all the people who don't like me, just think of all the millions who've never heard of me!