All art is knowing when to stop.

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.

It's okay, Ms Rainn, you were simply lost in your imagination.

With books, you can have as many boyfriends as you want, and no one gets upset, jealous or calls you out for cheating. It’s a win-win.

I was in Moldova airport and I went into the duty-free shop - and there wasn't a duty-free shop.

I use music as some kind of weird salvation to get away from life

The love of weaponry is often a manifestation of infantile traits in an adult.

I do not care to paint portraits indoors. I cannot feel sympathetic.

Magicians will always tell you the trick is the most important thing, but Im more interested in telling a story.

The limited liability corporation is the greatest single invention of modern times.

Not bombs nor my broken heart can take away from me walking barefoot with you in jasmine June through the Field of Mars.

Sometimes, I even recite the role to the actor if it's not clear. And I beg them not to imitate me, because I'm not a good actor.