"I don't believe in happy endings. I believe in happy journeys."

"The creative imagination is a wild animal. It cannot be tamed."

"I am not a pessimist. I think of a pessimist as someone who is waiting for it to rain. And I feel soaked to the skin."

"What is the purpose of a story? To tell what happened."

"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."