I don't know whether the bird you are holding is dead or alive, but what I do know is that it is in your hands. It is in your hands.

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.

It is not humiliating to be unhappy. Physical suffering is sometimes humiliating, but the suffering of being cannot be, it is life.

It is really a puzzle what drives one to take one's work so devilishly seriously.

The facile economic and psychological debunking of the theoretical life cannot do away with its irreducible beauties.

Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow. ~Swedish Proverb Lust is easy. Love is hard. Like is most important.

If you are not in fashion, you are nobody.

I went to college to study hospitality. I quickly got out of that and realized that what I liked to do was write.

So, just for one more merry day To the great Tree the leaflets clung, Frolicked and danced and had their way, Upon the autumn breezes swung.

If you have infinite patience and perseverance, success is bound to come. No mistake in that.

I seem to use this word 'kind' very frequently. When one is unhappy or anxious it is a quality one dwells on.

You ain't gotta be a dope boy to have money.