I don't wait to be struck by lightning and I don't need certain slants of light in order to be able to write.

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.

Rise above the deceptions and temptations of the mind. This is your duty. You are born for this only

Words are wind, and the wind from Manderly's mouth means no more than the wind escaping his bottom.

Moderation is the only rule of a healthful life. This means moderation in all things wholesome.

You know it's time to do the laundry when you dry off with a sneaker,

Some say pain is the greatest motivator. . . I say it's love.

Let it not be a beautiful face,' I thought, 'but to make up for that, let it be a noble, an expressive, and, above all, an extremely intelligent one.

Tomorrow is forever, and years pass in no time at all

Common sense and history tell you that rewarding illegal behavior will only encourage more of it.

Almost every disruption starts at the perceived fringes of today's market.

Where were they when the Russians went down?