From the windows, through the fur of snow, the landscape became more melancholy when the sun successfully brightened the quiet trees, unable to speak without their leaves.

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.

The wealthy do not focus on day-to-day short-term survival. Successful people focus on wealth building assets.

May your troubles be lessYour blessings be more.And nothing but happinessCome through your door.

When we dance, the journey itself is the point, as when we play music the playing itself is the point.

In fact, effective solidarity with the poor, both individual persons and entire nations, is indispensable for the construction of peace.

Memorial services are the cocktail parties of the geriatric set.

She stared at him in that vapid, intoxicated way employed only by women under a vamp's control. Or the way I sometimes got when faced with cupcakes. Mmm. Cupcakes.

It comes down to finding something you love to do and then just trying to be great at it

I see fans all the time. They're always very complimentary and they're always very eager to talk and to share their experiences or get a selfie. They're really, really loyal. And intense.

The cost of living keeps going up, although death is surprisingly affordable.

Miss not the occasion; by the forelock take that subtle power, the never-halting time.