A sister can be seen as someone who is both ourselves and very much not ourselves - a special kind of double.

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.

Cornered mothers pray for strange things.

Ability is of little account without opportunity.

Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

If you want to create, you'll create.

Bright-flaming, heat-full fire,The source of motion.

The entirety of the world's knowledge is in your pants right now.

But magic is really only the utilization of the entire spectrum of the senses.

There will be a machina mundi whose centre, so to speak, is everywhere, whose circumference is nowhere, for God is its circumference and centre and He is everywhere and nowhere.

To be in Florence is to reflect on Europe's intricate diversity - and its lost creativity.

When you're imagining peace, you can't kill anyone. That's good isn't it?