I always know the ending; that's where I start.

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.

People talk about the courage of condemned men walking to the place of execution: sometimes it needs as much courage to walk with any kind of bearing towards another person's habitual misery.

Life is only worth-while through the eyes of a believer.

I do not want to believe in God. Therefore I choose to believe in that which I know is scientifically impossible, spontaneous generation leading to evolution.

We like to kidnap them in a van, and take then somewhere dangerous... SURPRISE!!

There are just some kind of men…who’re so busy worrying about the next world they’ve never learned to live in this one.

More than an institution, more than a tradition, more than a society, Masonry is one of the forms of Divine life upon earth.

Tony Black is the Tom Waits of Crime Fiction, yes, that good.

A woman's two cents worth is worth two cents in the music business.

Capitalism has made it this way, old fashioned fascism will take it away.

I was always - I was a movie nut. I lived in the movies, really.