And I am all the things I have ever loved: scuppernong wine, cool baptisms in silent water, dream books and number playing.

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.

We no longer believe because it is absurd: it is absurd because we must believe.

I haven't yet discovered what my first language is so for the time being I use English words in order to say things: I expect I will always have to do it that way

Personal Responsibility is something that you should do because it is morally right, legally required, etc.

Everything is complicated if no one explains it to you.

Art and science have so much in common - the process of trial and error, finding something new and innovative, and to experiment and succeed in a breakthrough.

Finding bad reasons for what one believes for other bad reasons - that's philosophy.

Fundamental problem in American democracy is that we are allowing congressmen and senators to be bought and sold like sneakers.

What you cannot escape, you must fight; what you cannot fight, you must endure.

Looking back to the earlier centuries of the church, most of the great teachers were also bishops and vice versa. It's only fairly recently that the church has had this great divide.

I consider myself to be a pretty good judge of people... that's why I don't like any of them.