Anger... it's a paralyzing emotion... you can't get anything done.

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.

Magda looks at me as if I've gone mad. Or I've grown up. It's kind of the same thing.

And let us mind faint heart ne'er wan A lady fair.

We are all in the business of sales. Teachers sell students on learning, parents sell their children on making good grades and behaving, and traditional salesmen sell their products.

Play is the work of children. It's very serious stuff.

The space genre is timeless.

I see that you’ve had the non-pleasure of meeting my sister.Jordo, this is Rylann Pierce.” Jordan raised an eyebrow pointedly at Kyle. He glared. An entire dialogue seemed to pass between them

Hey, it's your birthday ?. Sit back, relax and enjoy it ? you've earned it! Have a Great One.

I've always been a fan of Andy Kaufman.

Nations are not thugs. They are bodies of intelligent people.

The ox suffers, the cart complains.