As a writer reading, I came to realize the obvious: the subject of the dream is the dreamer.

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.

An inferiority complex is acquired in childhood

I think I need a drink.''Almost everybody does only they don't know it.

Doing good is the only certainly happy action of a man's life.

Having small touches of colour makes it more colourful than having the whole thing in colour.

I really only have Perfect Fun with myself. Other people won't stop and look at the things I want to look at or, if they do, they stop to please me or to humor me or to keep the peace.

Our mothers who have gone are buried in our bodies. It can be said that we were born with dead mothers in our body.

Friends accept you the way you are.

He's so ugly. When you walked by him, your pants wrinkle. He made fly balls curve foul.

I was convinced that the world was in the departure and paging.

I shouldn't precisely have chosen madness if there had been any choice, but once such a thing has taken hold of you, you can't very well get out of it.