“People have to experience things that terrify them. If they don't, how will they ever come to appreciate safety?”

“The thing about fairy tales was having faith in the things that don't come true, and appreciating them when they do.”

“...there is no such thing as a charmed life, not for any of us, no matter where we live or how mindfully we attend to the tasks at hand. But there are charmed moments, all the time, in every life and in every day, if we are only awake enough to experience them when they come and wise enough to appreciate them.”

“People use people according to their own needs. Or don't use them. When a primary need is one of safety.”

“Sometime I'm going to do an essay called 'The Virtues of Amateurism' for all of those people who wish they earned their living in the arts. The market kills more artistic people than anything else. It's a world of safety out there, for most people. They want safety, the magazines and manufacturers give them safety, give them homogeneity, give them the familiar and comfortable, don't challenge them.”

“simple things are the most valuable and only wise people appreciate them".”