“When two people meet, each one is changed by the other so you’ve got two new people.”

The craft or art of writing is the clumsy attempt to find symbols for the wordlessness.

If you understand each other you will be kind to each other.

It’s a hard thing to leave any deeply routine life, even if you hate it.

The free exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world.

I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found.

This I must fight against: any idea, religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual.

In poverty she is envious. In riches she may be a snob. Money does not change the sickness, only the symptoms.

Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts, perhaps the fear of a loss of power.

Out of all this struggle a good thing is going to grow. That makes it worthwhile.

I know now why confusion in government is not only tolerated but encouraged. I have learned. Confused people can make no clear demands.

There’s a responsibility in being a person. It’s more than just taking up space where air would be.

And finally, in our time a beard is the one thing that a woman cannot do better than a man, or if she can her success is assured only in a circus.

A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ.

American married life is the doormat to the whorehouse.

People like you to be something, preferably what they are.

If a story is not about the hearer, he will not listen. And here I make a rule—a great and interesting story is about everyone or it will not last.

Unless someone like you comes around, things will never change.

The day I was born songs were on records, phones were tied down, computers needed rooms and the web was fiction. Change the world. You can.

My musical taste and image is going to change naturally. It’s not forced; I do what comes natural to me.

Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.

Please go for your dreams. Whatever your ideals, you can become whatever you want to become.

The only way for prejudiced people to change is for them to decide for themselves that all human beings should be treated fairly.

You can be the change. And it all starts with voting.

He will change diapers, of course he will. He is going to be a very hands-on father.