Heroes need monsters to establish their heroic credentials. You need something scary to overcome.

I hope that people will finally come to realize that there is only one 'race' - the human race - and that we are all members of it.

Myths can't be translated as they did in their ancient soil. We can only find our own meaning in our own time.

We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly.

You're never going to kill storytelling, because it's built into the human plan. We come with it.

A voice is a human gift; it should be cherished and used, to utter fully human speech as possible. Powerlessness and silence go together.

I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.

To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

Every person, all the events of your life are there because you have drawn them there. What you choose to do with them is up to you.

Although I cannot move and I have to speak through a computer, in my mind I am free.

America wasn't founded so that we could all be better. America was founded so we could all be anything we damned well pleased.

If a train doesn't stop at your station, then it's not your train.

You're only as good as the people you hire.

You'll never find a rainbow if you're looking down.

Once a year, go someplace you've never been before.