I don't think I knew any of my father's friends - male friends - by their real names. I remember them only by their nicknames.

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.

Ask any child who failed to live up to his parents’ idea of success, and you’ll likely hear that they never felt good enough, or that their parents had expectations that they could not live up to.

I’m in, especially if there’s a bad guy. Do I get to hurt a bad guy?

Interacting with you should give answers to specific kingdom questions

Caution! Be very careful of false, meaningless, self-contradictory, and not even very funny warnings, like this one.

Nobody's as good as you when you do what you do. I need you to own the time that comes with that.

When you have unity, I think it squares the reach or power of the work.

In the nineteenth century the more grandiose word inspiration began to replace the word idea in the arts.

Love is joy. Don't convince yourself that suffering is a part of it.

With the Rosary, the Christian people sits at the school of Mary and is led to contemplate the beauty on the face of Christ and to experience the depths of his love.