I sang "O Holy Night" in a school choir. My mother came and listened to me and complimented me. So that was the high point. I cannot sing a note.

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 reward is in the middle of hard work for a reason.

Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form.

Better to be cast out of the Church than to deny Christ.

You can't throw him back because he doesn't meet the legal size limit.

The bigotry of theologians is a malady which seems almost incurable.

I'd love to direct, I'd love to produce. I'd love to learn all about it, and being around it all the time certainly helps.

'Tis the year's midnight, and it is the day's.

I’m a dancer who cannot dance.

There. I've said everything I wanted to say without actually having to use the words "please stay

It is amazing how pretending to be in a different faction changes everything -- even the way I walk. That must be why it's so strange that I could easily belong in three of them.