Being good to somebody is just like being mean to somebody. Risky. You don't get nothing for it.

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.

What you think of yourself is what you will become.

You can never deceive or manipulate the future. Whatever it is you contribute towards it, is exactly what it will compensate you for.

He finally pulled it all back into his heart, sucking in the painful tide of his misery.

[Howard Hughes ] approached filmmaking like he approached all of his inventiveness - it gave him an opportunity to make a name for himself in the world.

It is not just the more talented player who wins. Some players may try a little harder.

I take a breath when I have to.

Most of the stories I have covered in 45 years have been gray stories.

Despite the theories traditionally taught in high-school social studies, the truth is: the more primitive the society, the more leisured its way of life.

I guess you need days off, but I just didn't want them.

Beauty is an evil in an ivory setting.