I have the wonderful pleasure of finishing the book and closing it. And I don't read them later.

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.

Consistency is a virtue for trains: what we want from a philosopher is insights, whether he comes by them consistently or not.

A first visit to a madhouse is always a shock.

We must mark God's providence leading us; and if providence tarries, tarry till providence comes

A lot of people are kind of depressed. I'm happy some of the time, and some of the time I'm not.

Being in love is such a nice feeling,and to be able to see that feeling on-screen is just nice, especially when it's a great story.

Charles Sumner's mind had reached the calm of WATER which receives and reflects images without absorbing them; it contains nothing but itself.

Money is of value for what it buys, and in love it buys time, place, intimacy, comfort, and a private corner alone.

I'm a big fan of pirates in general.

A faithless fan can make a team lose a game they have won.

Anybody can be a hellene, by his heart, his mind, his spirit.