Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do.

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.

It was impossible, of course. But when did that ever stop any dreamer from dreaming.

For a man, no more beautiful wish has ever found yet than wishing him a life full of kindness!

Innovation is the only bridge to mind digital gaps.

Ignorant free speech often works against the speaker. That is one of several reasons why it must be given rein instead of suppressed.

Maturity is a stage of life when you don't see eye to eye but can walk arm in arm.

It was a broiling afternoon of mid-August in Brinoe and everybody who was anybody had long ago quit its burning pavements and chilly palaces for the mountains or the sea.

Santa Fe is a great place which people don't get there often, but it's like a unique place.

The best of causes ruins as quickly as the worst; and the road to Limbo is paved with writers who have done everything I am being sympathetic, not satiric for the very best reasons.

I grew up in Mississippi being told it was a great place, but not feeling that. When I finally began reading seriously, literature showed me something about where I was from which was worthwhile.

Kobe [Bryant] had the biggest contract for a high school kid. He was the first one to get more than a million a year.