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.

She is a friend of mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order. It's good, you know, when you got a woman who is a friend of your mind.

Proper lighting is everything, Julianna.

If you want to know the value of half a second, ask the person who came second in a sprint event at the Olympics.

What did I know of loving anything, beyond a longing, beyond being biased in one woman's direction.

The mysterious magnet is either there, buried somewhere deep behind the sternum, or it is not.

The Tories, every election, must have a bogy man. If you haven't got a programme, a bogy man will do.

Seasonal change in Los Angeles is often a very subtle thing. It's not as if we finally stop having to shovel the snow out of our driveways and can put our parkas back in the closet.

I'm not giving away oil for free. Just using oil, first to benefit our people, to relieve poverty.

There is a bit of me if I'm pushed in one way I might bounce back and go the opposite.

You need, as a historian, essential triangulation from your subject and the only way you get that triangulation is through time.

It is absolutely necessary that the Christian community be subject in all things to the Sovereign Pontiff if it wishes to be a part of the divinely-established society founded by our Redeemer.