A coward with a gun is the most dangerous person in the world

I have only to break into the tightness of a strawberry, and I see summer - its dust and lowering skies.

If you want to fly, you have to give up the things that weigh you down.

The function of freedom is to free someone else.

Don’t beg anybody for anything, especially love.

There is no such thing as race. None. There is just a human race - scientifically, anthropologically. Racism is a construct, a social construct... it has a social function, racism.

There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal.

If there's a book you really want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.

In times of dread, artists must never choose to remain silent.

All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.

Oppressive language does more than represent violence; it is violence; does more than represent the limits of knowledge; it limits knowledge.

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.

A lie is nothing more than the truth told in reverse

I say the one thing Hillary Clinton has over me is experience, but it's bad experience, because what she has done has turned out badly.

Writers talk about the agony of writing; I talk about the agony of not writing.

If a community decides that some conduct is prejudicial to itself, and so decides by numbers sufficient to impose its will upon dissenters, I know of no principle which can stay its hand.

I live by the spirit so I don't gratify all them old sinful desires that never satisfy.

Be courageous. Be independent. Only remember where the true courage and independence come from.

God has given me authority in heaven and on earth, but my writ does not extend to hell. You will just have to put up with it.

Lethargy is the forerunner of death to the public liberty.

It is true that liberty is precious; so precious that it must be carefully rationed.