Don't tell us what to believe, what to fear. Show us belief's wide skirt and the stitch that unravels fear's caul.

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.

I never make the mistake of arguing with people for whose opinions I have no respect.

I was a Jewish rabbinical student for 12 years, and studied the Bible all the time.

Every year, back comes Spring, with nasty little birds yapping their fool heads off and the ground all mucked up with plants.

A psychiatrists is the next man you start talking to after you start talking to yourself.

One good thing about being locked in a cage: No responsibility!

Nonviolence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind.

I don't have to think. My only job is to show up and win.

I just like to look beautiful sometimes.

Every day a little death.

The interest I have to believe a thing is no proof that such a thing exists.