Everything depends on knowing how much,” she said, and “Good is knowing when to stop.

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.

When man has love he is no longer at the mercy of forces greater than himself, for he, himself, becomes the powerful force

Circumstances create some temporary conditions in one's life, but one's repeated interpretations of them always finalize whether they remain temporary or become permanent in one's life.

Sometimes it is best to burn paintings that just don't burn.

You should never form judgments from front page headlines. As with a contract, the fine print on the inside pages should be carefully studied.

Christ by his death destroying the works of the devil, procuring the Spirit for us, hath so killed sin, as to its reign in believers, that it shall not obtain its end and dominion.

We write for the same reason that we walk, talk, climb mountains or swim the oceans - because we can. We have some impulse within us that makes us want to explain ourselves to other human beings.

Robert Altman made that movie Kansas City about the jazz scene in the city, and we saw that band all together, and that was an amazing show. That's what I got into. I like jazz.

The limits to innovation have nothing to do with creativity, and nothing to do with technology. They have everything to do with management capability.

I'm up to my neck in the real world, every day. Just you try doing your VAT return with a head full of goblins.

We grow tired of everything but turning others into ridicule, and congratulating ourselves on their defects.