As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.

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.

Genius creates, and taste preserves.

I never say "get like me". I would hate for my competition to be on my level. In fact, stay exactly with what your doing.

It's the way of all flesh, you know. Aging takes its toll. Like I said, it's the way of all flesh. When the time came and he finally had to step down, the thing that kept him going disappeared.

People want you to play the songs they know. I try not to reflect too much, and I don't really like to focus too much on myself.

I don't feel like myself unless I run. It's how I deal with sadness and happiness. I need it. It's like therapy.

Jesus was not just a prophet but the fulfillment of all prophecy.

The first movie that I saw was Godzilla and I loved it.

I've learned that you can't have everything and do everything at the same time.

Home," he repeated. "Home is where the heart is. Why don't you leave yours here? I'll take very good care of it.

I'm fascinated by hallucinations. I mean, to me that is the sina qua non that you're getting somewhere.