I like marriage. The idea.

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.

The more you appreciate the things of beauty all around you, the more beautiful things will fill your life.

Responsibility is not doing as we are told, that's obedience. Responsibility is doing what is right.

Nothing is more hip than a corpse. The style is timeless. Death is trending.

I like that you let yourself be surprised

I'm rather relaxed about death. From quite an early age I've regarded it as part of the deal, the unwritten guarantee that comes with your birth certificate.

What is a magazine? A small body of Literature entirely surrounded by advertisements.

Changeless society is characterized by the absense of alternatives.

New believers are the lifeblood of the church. We can either evangelize or fossilize.

Messi is much more than being clever. He is a genius who reserves all his expressiveness for football.

It's been really nice to see different counties that I might never have visited before.