All important things are hard.

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.

If you didn't love him, this never would have happened. But you did. And accepting that love and everything that followed it is part of letting it go.

Something is wrong with me, it's something about me. it has to be me because all those people cannot have changed.

Ego doesn't kill you. It makes you lonely, which is even worse.

I've never used a PC in my life; I don't like them.

If you had to eat another human to survive, do you think they'd taste like their ethnic background?

Ireland. Great for the spirit - very bad for the body.

Leaders should be the chief repenters.

I hope that by people seeing the result of freedom that they'll want some, too.

NVC suggests behind every action, however ineffective, tragic, violent, or abhorrent to us, is an attempt to meet a need.

As someone who grew up there, I say: The Chechen Republic must remain part of Russia. Everything else is negotiable.